Jean-Baptiste Andrea is a writer, director and screenwriter, whose cinematic credits include Big Nothing, starring David Schwimmer and Simon Pegg. His debut novel, My Queen, won 12 literary prizes including the Prix du Premier Roman and the Prix Femina des Lycéens.

Bornin Nottinghamshire, England in 1970, Sam Taylor began his career as ajournalist with The Observer. In 2001, he moved to southwest France, where hewrote four novels. In 2010, he translated his first novel: Laurent Binet'sHHhH. He now lives in the United States and works as a literary translator andauthor. Recent translations include The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair,The Heart (for which he won the French-American Translation Prize) andLullaby/The Perfect Nanny.

A teenage boy sent to a religious boarding school dreams of escaping to a better life.

An elderly man gives virtuoso piano performances in airports and train stations. To the incredulity of the passers-by, he refuses their offers to play in concert halls, or at prestigious gatherings. He is waiting for someone, he tells them.

Joseph was just sixteen when he was sent to a religious boarding school in the Pyrenees: les Confins, a dumping ground for waifs, strays, and other abandoned souls. His days were filled with routine and drudgery, and he thought longingly of the solace he found through music in his former life.

Joe dreams constantly of escape, but it seems impossible. That is, until a chance encounter with the orphanage's benefactor leads him to Rose, and a plan begins to form...

Humorous even in its darkest moments, Devils and Saints tells a daring tale of camaraderie, love, and good triumphing over evil.