Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost

<p><b>In a strangely distorted Paris, a Japanese adoptee is haunted by the woman he once loved </b><br><br> When Fumiko emerges after one month locked in her dorm room, she¿s already dead, leaving a half-smoked Marlboro Light and a cupboard of petrified food in her wake. For her boyfriend, Henrik Blatand, an aspiring translator, these remnants are like clues, propelling him forward in a search for meaning. Meanwhile, Fumiko, or perhaps her doppelg¿er, reappears: in line at the Louvre, on street corners and subway platforms, and on the dissection table of a group of medical students.<br><br> Henrik¿s inquiry expands beyond Fumiko¿s seclusion and death, across the absurd, entropic streets of Paris and the figures that wander them, from a jaded group of Korean expats, to an eccentric French widow, to the indelible woman whom Henrik finds sitting in his place on a train. It drives him into the shadowy corners of his past, where his adoptive Danish parents raised him in a house without mirr