And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission.Ĭome to the streets of occupied Paris to discover whether love or duty will prevail. After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books. A war divides them.Īs the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape.
A must-read for Francophiles and bibliophiles.A bookstore unites them. Cities you'll discover along the way include Saint-Mammès, Cepoy, Briare-le-Canal, the Loire Valley, Chalon-sur-Saône, Cuisery, Lyon, Avignon and more. Translated from French, this book gives an insight into French culture, French attitudes and the different areas of France between Paris and Provence. The Little Paris Bookshop is a readers treat, combining an intelligent love of books with an emotionally thoughtful story. He travels in his barge from Paris to Provence, meeting many characters on the way who offer both entertainment and enlightenment. It's only when he opens a long-lost letter from a former lover that he sets out on his own journey of healing and self-discovery. Passersby will step upon his barge, explain what's troubling them and Jean-Perdu will find the perfect book to "cure" them. The protagonist, Jean-Perdu, runs a book barge on the Seine, aka The Little Paris Bookshop, which he refers to as his literary apothecary. The Little Paris Bookshop is the wonderful story of a Parisian bookseller nursing a broken heart. So if someone writes a book on World War II this year, I'll file it under World War II. Just because a book is filed under a certain period heading doesn't mean that's when it was written.
This list is aimed at non-Francophones who are passionate about France and want to learn everything they can about us. Each week, I'll add books to it, until I (or you) feel we have enough. Next thing I knew I had notes on more than 100 books, from books on France history to French literature classics to books on living in France.Īt this rate, the list would be published sometime around 2056, so instead, I decided to put this up as a work in progress.
Putting together a list of the best books about France is as impossible as (at least for me) as climbing Mont Blanc in sandals in winter.
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