The Little Red Chairs

The most boldly imagined element of “The Little Red Chairs” is, of course, the positing of an alternate universe in which a Balkan War criminal, the object of an international search for years, turns up in a remote Irish village in the hope of establishing a new, much-­diminished life as a healer-therapist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/03/books/review/the-little-red-chairs-by-edna-obrien.html