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'I like to dream that someone's chasing me. I run as fast as I can so he can't catch me, but still I can't escape. Sometimes the shadow extends his arm and touches my back. My whole body quivers to his touch and I hear a quiet, calm music.'

Blanca works at the Café France. If she actually exists. There she meets the characters of the novel, Alex and Not-Alex, Greek, the owner of the café, Anastasia, Polina and Red Dress. Having found a small box belonging to Alex, she tries to return it to him.

Askinyte's novel is lightly and lyrically told, but beneath the surface bubbles a dark and disturbing world.

Rasa Askinyte is one of a new generation of celebrated novelists recreating what Lithuanian fiction looks like. She has a Master's degree in philosophy and teaches at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. She has written four novels and an introduction to philosophy for children and was awarded the Lithuanian Book of the Year in 2014.