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The Paris Architect

Charles Belfoure

Start date: August 1, 2022

Finish date: August 31, 2022

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May 06, 2014 Radhika rated it really liked it

Charles Belfoure’s The Paris Architect is set during the Nazi invasion of France. It illustrates how Parisians were affected and how they had to use all their willpower to just survive this era. They could keep quiet or turn the other way when they saw how the Jews were being treated. Some even gave away their Jewish neighbors’ whereabouts, if they thought they would be targeted by the Gestapo themselves. Lucien Bernard, whose whole life ambition is to be a well-known architect, lives in this sc ...more

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Mar 30, 2015 Sandy rated it really liked it

I thought this was a very good book, it was a completely different perspective about WW II than you usually find in novels and it was quite well written. My only complaint was the frequency of the quite descriptive torture scenes. I could have definitely lived without some of that. But the book was very well written and the end was quite a surprise and has left me thinking about it all day.. I highly recommend it.

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