Le coup de grâce

By Marguerite Yourcenar

Subjects: Gay men, Gay men in fiction, Translations into English, Fiction, general, LGBTQ novels before Stonewall, Love, Fiction, Romance literature, French fiction, Russian fiction, History, Triangles (Interpersonal relations)

Description: Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, *Coup de Grâce* tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Erick becomes an unbearable burden.