| Paris Requiem Contributor(s): Appignanesi, Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 1908129999 ISBN-13: 9781908129994 Publisher: Arcadia Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Historical - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2013498824 |
| Physical Information: 1.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (1.20 lbs) 506 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Paris, 1899. The city is electric with excitement. Preparations for the universal exhibition and the dawn of a new century have hit fever pitch. But the sensual spectacle of the belle epoque is overshadowed by racial and social tensions, as the Dreyfus affair unleashes a riotous surge of anti-Semitism into its midst enters James Norton, an American charged with bringing home his brother Raf and their high-spirited sister Ellie. When the body of the beautiful Jewish woman Raf loves turns up in the Seine, and her sister is discovered I the sprawling Salp'triSre asylum, the siblings are drawn into a dark web of violence, madness and death. As James reluctantly tackles his mission, it emerges that he and Paris share a history - one that is not altogether unlinked to the turbulent present that now confronts him. Appignanesi's knowledge of the politics and culture of the era shines.--Publishers Weekly. |