Les Petits Adieux #[nn]

A hand holds a handwritten letter that has caught fire — the flame consuming the cursive pages while a wine bottle, candle, and scattered objects crowd the shadowy desk behind it — and that single charged image sets a quiet, melancholy tone for this 2009 Le Lombard release signed by Magda Marvano. Les Petits Adieux ("The Little Farewells") promises something intimate and emotionally precise, the kind of Franco-Belgian work that trusts a beautifully composed cover to say more than any tagline could.