Paris, 1899. The city is electric with excitement. Preparations for the universal exhibition and the dawn of a new century have hit fever pitch. But the sensual spectacle of the belle epoque is overshadowed by racial and social tensions, as the Dreyfus affair unleashes a riotous surge of anti-Semitism into its midst enters James Norton, an American charged with bringing home his brother Raf and their high-spirited sister Ellie. When the body of the beautiful Jewish woman Raf loves turns up in the Seine, and her sister is discovered I the sprawling Salp‚triŠre asylum, the siblings are drawn into a dark web of violence, madness and death. As James reluctantly tackles his mission, it emerges that he and Paris share a history - one that is not altogether unlinked to the turbulent present that now confronts him. "Appignanesi's knowledge of the politics and culture of the era shines."--Publishers Weekly.
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Lisa Appignanesi OBE is a prize-winning writer, novelist, broadcaster and cultural commentator. She is past president of English PEN, served as deputy director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts and is chair of the Freud Museum. She appears regularly on R3's Night Waves and R4's Saturday Review. Her many books include The Memory Man (Arcadia, 2004). She lives in North London.
Appignanesi's knowledge of the politics and culture of the era shines. --Publishers Weekly
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