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What is it about Furst's books that makes them so great? They all take place mainly in Paris, in the late 30's during the run up to WW II. They always deal with relatively ordinary people, people already laid low by events in Europe, who get caught up again and eventually have to make the choice to stand and fight in their own relatively insignificant way, a way that's not going to make any difference to the "big picture", but will in terms of duty and honor to yourself and those around you. You read these books and want to think that you would be good enough and strong enough to make the same choices. Yet you can never know for sure until you're actually called. It's this uncertainty that's conveyed so well in these books.
I was hooked on this book with the very first sentence: "In Paris, the last days of autumn; a gray, troubled sky at daybreak, the fall of twilight at noon, followed, at seven-thirty, by slanting rains and black umbrellas as the people of the city hurried past the bare trees." Just perfect! Then you're off, following Carlos Weisz into the emigre world of Paris, a world of people living desperate lives, waiting for the axe of war to fall. Snap brimmed hats, trench coats, cafes, Galouises, storm troopers, brownshirts ... it's all there. A great re-creation.
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thomas2fpo, June 6, 2006
What is it about Furst's books that makes them so great? They all take place mainly in Paris, in the late 30's during the run up to WW II. They always deal with relatively ordinary people, people already laid low by events in Europe, who get caught up again and eventually have to make the choice to stand and fight in their own relatively insignificant way, a way that's not going to make any difference to the "big picture", but will in terms of duty and honor to yourself and those around you. You read these books and want to think that you would be good enough and strong enough to make the same choices. Yet you can never know for sure until you're actually called. It's this uncertainty that's conveyed so well in these books.I was hooked on this book with the very first sentence: "In Paris, the last days of autumn; a gray, troubled sky at daybreak, the fall of twilight at noon, followed, at seven-thirty, by slanting rains and black umbrellas as the people of the city hurried past the bare trees." Just perfect! Then you're off, following Carlos Weisz into the emigre world of Paris, a world of people living desperate lives, waiting for the axe of war to fall. Snap brimmed hats, trench coats, cafes, Galouises, storm troopers, brownshirts ... it's all there. A great re-creation.
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