Paris
Australia, New Zealand, and other territories: 23rd April. UK ,Republic of Ireland, & S.Africa : 27th June. Paris : City of love. City of revolution. This thrilling and romantic story opens in La Belle Époque, the golden, hedonistic age of peace and joie de vivre. Moving back and forth in time across centuries, the story unfolds through intimate and vivid tales of self-discovery, divided loyalty, passion, and long-kept secrets both fictional and true, set against the backdrop of the city - from the summit of Montmartre to the gothic towers of Notre Dame to the grand boulevards of Saint-Germain, from the medieval world of saints and scholars to the modern French ideals of liberté, égalité, fraternité. The noble family de Cygne have served king and country through the ages, while their ancient enemies the Le Sourds embody the ideals of the French Revolution and the Paris Commune. The two Gascon brothers come from the dangerous slums behind Montmartre, but while Thomas goes to work building the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower, Luc makes a living in the underworld of Pigalle, near the Moulin Rouge. The Blanchards, ruined in the reign of Louis XV, rise again in the age of Napoleon and help establish Paris as the centre of art, literature and style that it is today. The American Hadleys, the father a painter, the son a friend of Hemingway, find romance in Paris, while the Jewish Jacob family of art dealers, expelled in the Middle Ages, try to survive in the Second War. The story of the city is rich indeed: From the days of Notre Dame and the mighty Knights Templar to the expulsion of the Jews; from the age of heroic Joan of Arc, to cunning Cardinal Richelieu and the bloody conflict between Catholics and Huguenots; from the glittering court of Versailles to the Terror of the French Revolution; from the heyday of the Impressionists to the shame of the Dreyfus Affair, and the tragic mutiny of the First World War; from the 1920s when the writers of the Lost Generation could be found drinking at Les Deux Magots, to the Nazi occupation, and the heroism of the French Resistance. CLICK To Read My Amazon Essay On PARIS CLICK To View The Hodder & Stoughton VIDEO TRAILER CLICK To View Family Tree - PARIS Novel CLICK To View a map of OLD PARIS
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REVIEWS: Writers Festival: A brief history of seven centuries. By David Larsen Edward Rutherfurd takes it remarkably well when I suggest that his
new novel resembles the Eiffel Tower: it's full of holes. "It's a
pleasure to hear that!" He has one of those deep, well-educated British
voices, and he's laughing uproariously.
"Oh, that's a good one."
Rutherfurd writes big books. Paris, his latest, is one of his
shorter efforts, which is to say that it's less than 800 pages long,
with a story spanning only seven centuries. READ THE REVIEW NEWBOOKS: Paris Reviewed by Jean Marshall -
Hertfordshire This is a great novel from a writer who excels
in research and storytelling. I enjoyed Paris even more than Sarum
and London. The history of Paris springs to life in this sparkling epic
portrait: a city of love and dreams, of saints and scholars, of splendour and
terror. In two thousand years Paris, ‘sink of iniquity’, has seen it all. READ THE REVIEW Release Dates:
