- Fiction, Families, History, Paris (france), fiction
Presents a multigenerational saga detailing the history of Paris, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s. It is an epic portrait of Paris that leaps through centuries as it weaves the tales of families whose fates are forever entwined with the City of Lights.
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Earnest, epic, grave and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Edward Rutherfurd
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 809
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House, LLC, a Penguin Random House Co., Hodder
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385535304
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