The Paris Architect is about a gentile architect who creates clever hiding places for Jewish Frenchmen during Germany’s occupation of Paris in The novel, I believe, goes deeper than the obvious fact that the hiding places are created in buildings as this review will reveal. In Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money - and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. · English. pages: 20 cm. In Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money - and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble.
Charles Belfoure (born 19 February ) is an American writer, architect and historian specializing in historic preservation, author of several histories and fiction works, including The New York Times best-selling novel The Paris Architect. Using the novel as a vehicle in which to demonstrate his interest and architectural knowledge about intriguing, secret hideaways built for Jews in Paris during the German Occupation of WWII, Charles Belfoure succeeded in capturing my interest perfectly. Unfortunately the storyline was somewhat laboured and jumped around disconcertingly. Additional Praise for The Paris Architect "Belfoure writes like an up-and-coming Ken Follett." — Booklist " Disturbing and captivating [this] beautiful tale demonstrates that while human beings are capable of great atrocities, they have a capacity for tremendous acts of courage as well.".
by Charles Belfoure ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, During the Nazi occupation of Paris, an architect devises ingenious hiding places for Jews. In architect Belfoure’s fiction debut, the architectural and historical details are closely rendered, while the characters are mostly sketchy stereotypes. Depraved Gestapo colonel Schlegal and his torturer lackeys and thuggish henchmen see their main goal as tracking down every last Jew in Paris who has not already been deported to a concentration. The Paris Architect is about a gentile architect who creates clever hiding places for Jewish Frenchmen during Germany’s occupation of Paris in The novel, I believe, goes deeper than the obvious fact that the hiding places are created in buildings as this review will reveal. “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” Winston Churchill Charles Belfoure, a national bestselling author, has penned a heart-touching as well as enlightening and nostalgic novel, The Paris Architect, that accounts the story of an architect based in Paris during the world war II when German have occupied the city and was ordering the Jews out of the city, when this normal regular, law-abiding architect chances upon a golden opportunity to prove his worth by taking life.
0コメント