Product details:
ISBN13: | 9780806541440 |
ISBN10: | 080654144X |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 320 pages |
Size: | 238x156 mm |
Weight: | 568 g |
Language: | English |
Illustrations: | 20 |
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Category:
Star Crossed
A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitlers Paris
Publisher: Citadel
Date of Publication: 22 August 2023
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Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Cafe de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter's creative world. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis - and more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other tre