O Brother! described as "extrodinarily direct and true," portrays the life of a con-artist infatuated with his mother, with sex and charm, and inhabiting a world of pure fantasy which reality always returns to destroy. Olga and Snow tells of a Russian waif who is bedded by a series of extraordinary figures fromthe Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s. La Francoise is here published for the first time in English as a tribute to his friend Geogres Simenon.