PARIS (Libro en papel)

de RUTHERFURD,EDWA

Sinopsis

City of love. City of splendour. City of terror. 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 thecenturies: from the lies that spawn the noble line of de Cygne to therevolutionary Le Sourds who seek their destruction, from theBlanchards whose bourgeois respectability offers scant protectionagainst scandal to the hard-working Gascons and their soaringambitions. Over hundreds of years, these four families are bound byforbidden loves and marriages of convenience, dogged by vengeance andmurderous secrets, torn apart by the irreconcilable differences ofbirth and faith, and brought together by the tumultuous history oftheir city. Paris bursts to life in the intrigue, corruption and glory of its people. Beloved author of Sarum, London and New York, EdwardRutherfurd 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.