But when one of his hideouts fails horribly, and the problem of where to conceal a Jew becomes much more personal, and he can no longer ignore what's at stake.īook clubs will pore over the questions Charles Belfoure raises about justice, resistance, and just how far we'll go to make things right. Soon Lucien is hiding more souls and saving lives. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it while World War II rages on.
In 1942 Paris, architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. OL20983510W Page_number_confidence 98.33 Pages 422 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210727133831 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 536 Scandate 20210724025851 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780749019471 Tts_version 4."A gripping page-turner.a riveting reminder of sacrifices made by history's most unlikely heroes." -Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We HideĪn extraordinary book about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life of resistance, devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris.
An architect by profession, he graduated from the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, and he taught at Pratt as well as Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Urn:lcp:parisarchitect0000belf:epub:7b73e1df-9fa7-407c-b47f-369e49b3f4ca Foldoutcount 0 Identifier parisarchitect0000belf Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6457qm4r Invoice 1652 Isbn 0749019476ĩ780749019471 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-2000054 Openlibrary_edition Charles Belfoure is the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Architect and House of Thieves. Life is so difficult that people stand in line for stale bread and watered wine. Urn:lcp:parisarchitect0000belf:lcpdf:9e6b948e-f9b4-4ee6-b335-603ff29ff2df The German Army owns Paris, and runs it like a combination whore house and shooting gallery.
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