Sewe dae by die Silbersteins- Etienne Leroux

Young Henry van Eeden arrives for a seven-day-visit to Welgevonden, a prelude to his marriage to Salome Silberstein.  Every night he attends the one absurdly lavish party after the other, setting the stage for Henry’s passage from ignorance and innocence to awareness and initiation into the complexities of good and evil.