This novelsweeps through centuries, pausing to relate interwoven stories of love, courage, and betrayal, all set on the hallowed ground that is Paris, a city I love.
The book’s strength is that succeeding generations of several fictional families trod the same Parisian streets, chapter after chapter, through seven hundred years of history. Before long, the city feels as familiar as your hometown.
Those families became my ancestors, their struggles my own. The long chapter on World War II brought me to tears. The whole book’s an intimate experience that leaves you homesick for the City of Lights, whether you’re a frequent visitor or an armchair tourist.
From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling, epic portrait of the City of Light
Internationally bestselling author Edward Rutherfurd has enchanted millions of readers with his sweeping, multigenerational dramas that illuminate the great achievements and travails throughout history. In this breathtaking saga of love, war, art, and intrigue, Rutherfurd has set his sights on the most magnificent city in the world: Paris.
Moving back and forth in time across centuries, the story unfolds through intimate and vivid tales of self-discovery, divided loyalties , passion, and long-kept secrets of characters both fictional and real, all set against…
The Covenant of Waterwas the most memorable, emotional reading experience I’ve had in years. Yet, despite the accolades, if not for my book club, I might have avoided it because it’s 775 pages. Don’t let that length discourage you!
Under author Abraham Verghese’s sure hand, the immersive multigenerational plot flows beautifully and swiftly. Indian culture, humor, and raw humanity burst to life on every page.
The characters, so well-wrought that you love them despite their faults, are unique. The women especially touched my heart, reminding me how often they are the glue that binds culture, family, and progress.
A gem of a novel in text or audio! In the end, I dried my tears and begged for more.
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From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret
“One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!”—Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of…
In this poignant memoir, a young man, grieving after his brother’s death, trades a coveted position at The New Yorker for a ten-year stint as a museum guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Usually, I’m not a big reader of memoirs. However, Patrick Bringley’s insider look at the Met, its staff, and the artworks he grew to love brought me to tears. You see, for me, museums are cathedrals, and cathedrals are museums. Both provide soul-healing peace and a belief in greatness beyond my humble existence.
Bringley’s reading of the audiobook felt as satisfying as roaming a great museum’s hallowed halls in person. As a bonus, I have a new appreciation for museum guards.
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former New Yorker staffer who spent a decade as a museum guard.
Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access to every nook and cranny. They’re the guards who roam unobtrusively in dark blue suits, keeping a watchful eye on the two million square foot treasure house. Caught up in his glamorous fledgling career at The New Yorker, Patrick Bringley never thought he’d be one of them. Then…
With its adaptation of Napoleon Bonaparte’s real attempt to write romantic fiction,Finding Napoleon: A Noveloffers an intimate take on Europe’s most powerful man after he’s lost everything. His last love—feisty Countess Albine—fleshes out the steely leader who’s a lusty lover, tender father, and naïve friend.
Exiled to St. Helena Island, defiant Napoleon schemes against the British for his freedom. He recruits enslaved Africans, British sympathizers, and French followers, but treachery foils his plans: his lover, Albine, intent on her survival, swerves between devotion and betrayal. Amid intrigues, Napoleon finishes writing Clisson, his youthful novel.
Now, the idealistic manuscript is a message to his young son, whom his enemies hold in Europe. To deliver it, Napoleon must find someone to trust.
