A sculptor is seriously burned in an explosion in his loft, and, while hospitalized, he meets Sabine, the nurse who dresses his wounds and who becomes the center of his obsessive sexual passion. Once discharged, he and Sabine arrange a tryst at a hotel near the Porte d'Orleans in the south of France, but following the ecstatic encounter, Sabine vanishes without an explanation. His sexual obsession with her is so overwhelming, he believes it will never leave him. However, one evening, in the course of one of his walks through Paris, he meets a girl in a bright red dressૻAnna. With Anna he explores the outer and inner limits of sexual desire, where he is set adrift between dread and a searing adventure of the senses. Ghislaine Dunant was born in Paris. Brazen, her first novel was published byÈditions Gallimard as L'Impudeur in France. Since that time,

Gallimard has published Dunant's second novel La Lettre Oubliée (The Forgotten Letter).