Paris: the Epic Novel of the City of Lights
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781444767636
Publish date: 2013
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.
Pages no: 832
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Travel,
Literature,
Epic,
Cultural,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Adult,
Contemporary,
France
I enjoyed this book. But I think I was predisposed to like the novel as I love Paris. I enjoyed reading about the history. I liked reading about the trajectory of each family and how their lives were intertwined across the generations. Some of it was cliched, but overall it's a good read.
An exciting, complex adventure through French history, Paris kept me captivated for over 800 pages - or rather what ended up being an entire month's worth of audiobook listening time. This may have been 5 stars if I had read it rather than listening. Finding the family tree on Edward Rutherfurd's we...
"Paris" is the story of three families: the aristocratic Cygnes, and the poor/peasant LeSourds and Gascons. Author Edward Rutherfurd takes us through the families' history ... and how they intertwine ... from the 17th Century up through 1968.Along the way, we see the French Revolution, the Belle Epo...
3 ½ starsI’m a fan Rutherfurd's sweeping epics, but this is not one of my favorites. I think this is partly because he changed his style of writing. Instead of his usual linear approach where he begins in ancient times and moves forward to the present, this book is set mostly during the late 1800's ...
"It was only a matter of time before the author of New York, London, and Russka would invite us into a comparable multigenerational tale about Paris. Stretching from the medieval construction of Notre Dame to the 1968 student revolt and beyond, this panoramic new novel exhibits Rutherford's lifelong...
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