Tag Edward Rutherfurd
According to some analysts only one percent of all terrorist attacks occur in the West. But the November, 2015 attacks in Paris have galvanised the world. Paris is known as The City of Light, as the most beautiful city in the world, the epitome of all that the Western civlisation has been able to produce. Author Edward Rutherfurd, the grand master of the historical novel, has produced a dazzling epic about this magnificent city. Described as “grand and engrossing”, Paris: The Novel moves back and forth in time, the story unfolding through intimate tales of self-discovery, divided loyalty, and long-kept secrets. As various characters come of age, seek their fortunes, and fall in and out of love, the novel follows nobles who claim descent from the hero of the celebrated poem The Song of Roland; a humble family that embodies the ideals of the French Revolution; a pair of brothers from the slums behind Montmartre, one of whom works on the Eiffel Tower as the other joins the underworld near the Moulin Rouge; and merchants who lose everything during the reign of Louis XV, rise again in the age of Napoleon, and help establish Paris as the great center of art and culture that it is today. The sights, scents, and tastes of the City of Light are brought to brilliant life.