![]() ![]() ![]() Every street name is real and each detail precise, which will certainly provide anyone who loves Paris with pleasingly new insights into the true story of the City of Light. The book’s strength comes from Rutherfurd’s meticulous research. From the building of Notre Dame and the golden age of the Belle Époque, to the heroes of the French Resistance and the student uprisings of 1968. Four families from across Parisian society – workers to noblemen – lead you through the story of this great city. The first few pages (out of 731) provide family trees and maps of Paris, planting history and geography at the heart of the book, and setting the scene for the mainly factual drama that Rutherfurd brings to life. But Rutherfurd, who’s a master at what are known as ‘multi-generational dramas’ doesn’t follow events chronologically, instead choosing to constantly move around this most epic of timelines. Paris takes you from the moment when Julius Caesar first saw the spot that the Parisii tribe called home, to the student riots around the Sorbonne in 1968. However, if you’re new to the work of this British-born writer, as I am, you soon learn that this isn’t a traditional story. Rutherfurd’s latest is billed as Paris: The Novel, a designation with which the shades of mile Zola and Victor Hugo might take issue. At two inches thick, Edward Rutherfurd’s Paris feels like a traditional, epic novel. PARIS by Edward Rutherfurd RELEASE DATE: ApOverstuffed yarn of the ville lumire from city-hopping epic-smith Rutherfurd ( New York, 2009, etc.). ![]()
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