****"This fine first novel explores the ways history abides in the streets and monuments of an old city, and in the human souls who love it and grieve for it and struggle to forgive it. This book is a small parable, pondering the nature of civilization itself."** **-- Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer
Haunting Paris: a novel
β Scribed by Mamta Chaudhry
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Nan A. Talese / Doubleday
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- France--Paris., Paris (France
- ISBN
- 0385544618
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β¦ Synopsis
**"This fine first novel explores the ways history abides in the streets and monuments of an old city, and in the human souls who love it and grieve for it and struggle to forgive it. This book is a small parable, pondering the nature of civilization itself."
-- Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead
A timeless story of love and loss takes a mysterious turn when a bereaved pianist discovers a letter among her late lover's possessions, launching her into a decades-old search for a child who vanished in the turbulence of wartime Paris.**
In the summer of 1989, while all of Paris is poised to celebrate the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Sylvie mourns the loss of her lover, Julien, and is unable to find solace in the music that has always been her refuge. But when she accidentally dislodges an envelope concealed in Julien's desk, she finds an enigmatic note from a stranger and feels...
β¦ Subjects
Man-woman relationship -- Fiction
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