Only Venice, Claudie Gallay

At forty, left by her partner, she empties her bank account and leaves for Venice, to avoid sinking. It is winter, the tourists have deserted the city and only the residents of the guesthouse where she is staying pull her out of her solitude. There is a Russian aristocrat in a wheelchair, a young dancer and her lover. There is also, in the city, a bookseller who loves words and his city who, little by little, will revive in her the expectation of desire and of another.
In language adapted to the emotions and distress of her character, Claudie Gallay depicts the inner transformation of a woman in search of a new lease on life. And meditates, in the setting of a disturbing and revealing Venice, on the stakes of creation and the power of amorous feeling.