Moving back and forth in time, the story unfolds through intimate and thrilling tales of self-discovery, divided loyalty, and long-kept secrets. His books have been translated into twenty languages.From Edward Rutherfurd, the grand master of the historical novel, comes a dazzling epic about the magnificent city of Paris. In 2009 NEW YORK was published, and Edward is hard at work on another big novel at present. 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. Four years later, when Sarum was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.

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. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. 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.Įdward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Paris bursts to life in the intrigue, corruption and glory of its people. 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.

City of dreams.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. Print Paris - A novel of the city of lightsĬity of love.

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