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Paris through the eyes of intellectuals and invisible life next to geniuses
Edmond and Jules de Goncourt are inseparable brothers who shared not only their home and creativity, but also the most intimate moments of existence: thoughts, work, and a lover. Together they went to meetings with Flaubert and Émile Zola. And then a ruthless illness came for one of them, and the world of idealized co-creation was shaken.
At the same time, the novel immerses us in the hidden life of their housekeeper Rosa - a woman who, in the shadow of her brothers, experiences existential dramas, hopelessly falls in love with the wrong man, gets pregnant, secretly gives birth to a child, becomes a drunkard, steals from her employers, and they do not notice this. Until she dies...