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Boris Akunjin is the pseudonym of Grigori Chhartishvili, a Muscovite of Georgian origin. Many of his novels have been screened, including "The State Counselor" starring the famous Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov and actor Oleg Menshikov.
Bulgakov placed the Devil in Moscow in the twenties of the last century, Updike in America with three handsome plays, British young hope Glen Duncan in the body of a failed writer and suicide in London - today.
The novel is set during the French Revolution, more precisely during the Jacobin reign of terror, in the years after the execution of King Louis XVI, while Queen Marie Antoinette was imprisoned in the Temple prison.
"Eugénie Grandet" (1833), part of Balzac's Human Comedy, is a realistic novel that explores greed, family relationships, and the sacrifices of love in provincial French society.