Villa America (44 page)
Authors: Liza Klaussmann
Liza Klaussmann
is the author of
Tigers in Red Weather,
an international bestseller for which she won a British National Book Award and the Elle Grand Prix for Fiction and for which she was named Amazon UK’s Rising Star of the Year in 2012. A former journalist, Klaussmann was born Brooklyn and spent ten years living in Paris. She currently lives in North London.
Villa America
is her second novel.
Tigers in Red Weather
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This is a work of fiction. The names, characters, and events in this book are the product of the author’s imagination, or they are used fictitiously and are not intended to represent real incidents or people, living or dead.
Copyright © 2015 by Liza Klaussmann
Author photograph by Leta Warner
Cover design by Kapo Ng
Cover photographs © Jayne Szekely / Arcangel Images (villa), Ralf Hettler / Getty Images (airplane)
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