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Paris is ideally suited for readers who enjoy sweeping historical fiction, intricate family sagas, and richly detailed settings bringing alive the complex history of great cities. Fans of Edward Rutherfurd's previous novels or anyone drawn to multi-generational epics and passionate tales of love, power, and conflict will find much to savour here.
The epic novel of the most romantic city in the world.
The epic novel of the most romantic city in the world.
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Inspired by the haunting, passionate story of the city of lights, this epic novel weaves a gripping tale of four families across the centuries: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to the revolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction; from the Blanchards whose bourgeois respectability offers scant protection against scandal to the hard-working Gascons and their soaring ambitions.
Over hundreds of years, these four families are bound by forbidden loves and marriages of convenience; dogged by vengeance and murderous secrets; torn apart by the irreconcilable differences of birth and faith, and brought together by the tumultuous history of their city. Paris bursts to life in the intrigue, corruption and glory of its people.
Beloved author of Sarum, London and New York, Edward Rutherfurd illuminates Paris as only he can: capturing the romance and everyday drama of the men and women who, in two thousand years, transformed a humble trading post on the muddy banks of the Seine into the most celebrated city in the world.
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Edward Rutherfurd is celebrated for remarkable, grand storytelling that spans centuries, bringing history vividly to life with research-backed narrative and compelling characters. His works are universally praised for adventure, suspense, and deep emotional resonance. Readers are drawn into the iconic cities he portrays, with stories that are both epic in scope and rich in drama.
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ISBN: 9781444736816
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 February 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Hodder Paperback
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 55.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 576g
Pages: 848
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About the Author
Edward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. After numerous attempts to write books and plays, he finally abandoned his career in the book trade in 1983, and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge, and Salisbury.
Four years later, when Sarum was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. Since then he has written five more bestsellers: Russka, a novel of Russia; London; The Forest, set in England's New Forest which lies close by Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. In 2009 New York was published, and Edward is hard at work on another big novel at present. His books have been translated into twenty languages.Also by Edward Rutherfurd
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