“The Seal of an Angel” is the first novel in Russian by the well-known Canadian writer Nancy Houston. It is an extraordinary love story between a German and a Jew, burned by World War II. The action takes place in France, mired in another war—with Algeria. Houston talks about the problems of personal and collective guilt, about the responsibility of choice. Behind the twists of a classic love triangle you can see the story of Europe’s most turbulent and most troubled times of the previous century.