Paris - Tapa dura

Rutherfurd, Edward

 
9781444736793: Paris
Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 1444736795 ISBN 13: 9781444736793
Editorial: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, 2013

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 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.

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. Paris bursts to life in the intrigue, corruption and glory of its people.

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.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Edward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge, and Stanford, California, he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing. 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.

Four years later, when Sarum was published, it became an instant international bestseller, remaining 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List. 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.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Año de publicación
2013
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1444736795
ISBN 13 
9781444736793
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
752
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
no disponible

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780345530769: Paris: The Novel

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0345530764 ISBN 13:  9780345530769
Editorial: Ballantine Books, 2014
Tapa blanda