Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin

Paris in the Present Tense

Mark Helprin

394 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical emotional reflective slow-paced
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Mark Helprin’s 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 Lacour—a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war i...

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