Presentation
About to board a plane home to Paris, Agnès, who has just spent four days inWarsaw, realises that she has lost her passport. A the Embassy, they tell her it has been found in a hotel. When she finally gets it back it is to find that the document contains her photo but that the name on it is a certain Wioletta Wlodarska, a polish citizen. Agnès finds herself without identity, lost in an unknown city. She encounters Bénédykt, a handsome young man, and olga, a photographer, who will help her. But as they try and unravel the mystery, it just gets deeper and Agnès starts doubting her companions' real intentions.
Little by little, distilling doubt and fear, the story unfolds into a thriller with Hitchcockian understones.
Philippe Moreau-Sainz was born in Paris in 1976. After los Angeles 32 (Michalon, 2008), Mazurka is his second novel.