At a German spa town, the disillusioned Russian Litvinov is drawn back into a destructive love affair with the aristocratic Irina, even as he tries to build a stable future with his fiancée.
Books mentioned in Smoke (2)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: “Well, he was once at some friend's house in Paris, and suddenly in comes Madame Beecher Stowe--you know, _Uncle Tom's Cabin_.”
Mademoiselle La Quintinie by George Sand: “Have you read _Mlle. de la Quintinie_? That's something charming now!”