Liliana Lazar entered literature with Terre des affranchis, which earned her around ten awards. JMG Le Clézio had saluted this novelist born in Romania who had adopted the French language for writing.

Carpathians is her third title, it features a young French couple, Boris and Jeanne, who we find in an isolated inn in the middle of the Carpathian mountains. We learn that Jeanne is pregnant but her companion does not know it. Just as Boris knows that his partner will not have…