A country road, a tree
By: Jo Baker
Published: 2017
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780552779524
Subjects: Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 - Fiction; World War II, 1939-1945 - France - Paris - Fiction; France - History - German occupation, 1940-1945 - Fiction; History; Authors, Irish - 20th century - Fiction; Fiction
Description: Paris, 1939: the pavement rumbles with the footfall of Nazi soldiers marching along the Champs-Elysees. A young writer, recently arrived from Ireland to make his mark, smokes one last cigarette with his lover before the city they know is torn apart. Soon, he will put is own life and those of his loved ones in mortal danger by joining the Resistance... Spies, artists, deprivation, danger and passion: this is a story of life at the edges of human experience, and of how one man came to translate it all into art.
Notes: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2016.