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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 matre 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 time of lifedays bright with music, family, rowing on the SeineJules is confronted headlong and all at once by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth. In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling,

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Author

Helprin, Mark, author

Publisher

New York, NY: The Overlook Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780715652886

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.37 / 5 (109 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13