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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mark Helprins powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacoura maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaustmust find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be an effulgent...
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