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The year is 1957, and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal. Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and irresistible. One day in the old Jewish quarter of the city, where she has taken Raphael’s flute to be repaired, Saffie meets a Hungarian instrument maker, and all their lives are unexpectedly, dramatically altered.
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2013 1999
ISBN
9781743189153
Relevance:
5.0596
Author
Radiguet, Raymond
Format
eBook
Publication Date
2019
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PLAIN TEXT, EPUB, HTML, KINDLE
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Project Gutenberg
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France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
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2005
ISBN
9780297844044
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4.0000
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'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas.' During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles, Dr Mahé caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence, or may destroy him.
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2017
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9781489383174
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3.7712
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2015 1394
ISBN
9786007443378
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3.5777
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August 1992. Fourteen-year-old Anthony and his cousin decide to steal a canoe to fight their all-consuming boredom on a lazy summer afternoon. Their simple act of defiance will lead to Anthony's first love and his first real summer - that one summer that comes to define everything that follows. Over four sultry summers in the 1990s, Anthony and his friends grow up in a France trapped between nostalgia and decline, decency and rage, desperate to escape their small town, the scarred countryside and grey council estates, in search of a more hopeful future. Nicolas Mathieu's eloquent novel gives a pitch-perfect depiction of teenage angst. Winner of the Prix Goncourt, it won praise for its portrayal of people living on the margins and shines a light on the struggles of French society today.
Publication Date
2020
ISBN
9781529303834
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3.2660
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Though many have never heard her name, Alice Prin - Kiki de Montparnasse - was the icon of 1920s Paris. She captivated as a ground-breaking nightclub performer, wrote a bestselling memoir, sold out exhibitions of her paintings, and shared drinks and ideas with the likes of Pablo Picasso, Peggy Guggenheim, and Marcel Duchamp. She also shepherded along the career of a then-unknown American photographer: Man Ray. Following Kiki in the years between 1921 and 1929, when she lived and worked with Man Ray, Kiki Man Ray charts their complicated entanglement and reveals how Man Ray - always the unabashed careerist - went on to become one of the most famous photographers of the twentieth century, enjoying wealth and prestige, while Kiki's legacy was lost. But this isn't a story of an overbearing male genius and his defeated muse. During the 1920s it was Kiki, not Man Ray, who was the brighter of the two rising stars and a powerful figure among the close-knit community of models, painters, writers and cafe wastrels who made their homes in gritty Montparnasse. Following the couple as they created art, struggled for power and competed for fame, Kiki Man Ray illuminates for the first time Kiki's seminal influence on the culture of 1920s Paris, and challenges ideas about artists and muses, and the lines separating the two.
Publication Date
2022
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9781529300499 9781529300482
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2.9711
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English society beauty Genevieve Shelby King parties to the utmost with the artists and writers of bohemian Montparnasse. She has a rich husband, a glamorous apartment and an enormous shoe collection. But there is something hollow at the centre of Genevieve's charmed life." "When she spots a pair of unique and exquisite shoes on the feet of her arch rival one night, her whole collection - indeed, everything she has -seems suddenly worthless. The exclusive designer Paolo Zachari, renowned for his fabulous shoes and his snobbish eccentricities, hand-picks his clients according to whim. And Zachari has determined to say no to Genevieve. As her desire for the pair of unobtainable shoes develops into an obsession with their elusive creator, Genevieve's elaborately designed life comes under threat, and she is forced to confront the emptiness at its heart.
Publication Date
2007
ISBN
9781407409948
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2.9212
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A marriage-in-crisis drama set in Naples and Rome over a long period starting in the 1980s.
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2020
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9322225245037 PAL233
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2.6667
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"From her beginnings as the daughter of a courtesan to her extraordinary transformation into the most celebrated actress of her era, Sarah Bernhardt is brought to life by an internationally bestselling author praised for his historical novels featuring famous women. Told in her own voice, this is Sarah Bernhardt's incandescent story--a fascinating, intimate account of a woman whose unrivalled talent and indomitable spirit has enshrined her in history as the Divine Sarah."--Publisher description.
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2020
ISBN
9781524799076
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2.4689
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In the wake of a bizarre, shocking accident in Paris, Jayne finds herself back in the city in a strange limbo. Ignoring the past, she tries to move forward. There is theatre. Love. New friendships. A new neighbourhood. But the accident haunts her, forcing her to confront herself and the experience in ways she could never have predicted. A tale of survival and the untold joys of life's curveballs, My Sweet Guillotine captures love and trauma with profound insight. Confronting, funny, strange and real, this is a book about life, death and reinvention, rendered in exquisite prose.
Publication Date
2022
ISBN
9781743797853
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2.3591
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Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is an unwilling darling of the Nazis and uses her position of privilege to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows the Gestapo will torture information out of Lillian that will derail the upcoming allied invasion. The resistance movement is tasked with silencing Lillian by any means necessary--including assassination. But Genevieve refuses to let her mother become a victim of the war. Reuniting with her long-lost sister, she must navigate the perilous cross-currents of Occupied France in time to save Lillian's life.
Publication Date
2020
ISBN
9781432880484 9781432886271
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2.2188
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