Highlights

• 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 maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria.
• And child of the Holocaust-must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present.
• In the midst of what should be an effulgent time of life-days bright with music, family, rowing on the Seine-Jules is confronted headlong.

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