num_pages: 278
description: Like his father before him Octavio runs the Notre-Dame bakery and knows the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. But also like his father Octavio has never mastered the art of reading and his only knowledge of the world beyond the bakery door comes from his own imagination. Just a few streets away Isabeau works out of sight in the basement of the Louvre trying to forget her disfigured beauty by losing herself in the paintings she restores and the stories she reads. The two might never have met but for a curious chain of coincidences involving a mysterious traveller an impoverished painter a jaded bookseller and a book of fairytales lost and found . . .
language: English
title: The Emperor of Paris
publisher: Doubleday Canada