Hugues's house on the quay
Chapter 1
In rooms preserved exactly as his wife left them, with her portraits everywhere and her severed plait of golden hair laid in a casket like a relic, Hugues lives entirely in the past. The house on the still canal is a reliquary of grief, the whole book's obsession made into a set of rooms.
Chapter 1
inferredHugues keeps his shrine-like house on one of the quiet canal quays of Bruges, such as the Quai du Rosaire; the specific house is invented and sited on the real waterside.
