Christine Montalbetti Christine Montalbetti is an award-winning French novelist, essayist, critic and professor of literature at the University of Paris VIII. Nothing but Waves and Wind was inspired by a trip she took to the west coast of Oregon, where the ocean an the proximity of Mount St. Helens fueled her imagination, and gave rise to a series of down-and-out characters whose violence and unpredictability seems determined by their surroundings. Read More Read Less