Star Crossed (eBook)

A True WWII Romeo and Juliet Love Story in Hitler's Paris

Heather Dune Macadam, Simon Worrall (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
320 Seiten
Citadel Press (Verlag)
978-0-8065-4146-4 (ISBN)

Infos

For readers of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah who are looking for an immersive true account of Nazi-occupied Paris, Star-Crossed is an epic story of love and resistance during WW2 from the award-winning author of Pen America Literary Award Finalist and Goodreads Choice Award Nominee, 999. Part historical portrait of life during the Occupation, part valentine to The City of Light and the resilience of its people, this transportive love story follows the romance between a Catholic Resistance fighter and a Holocaust victim who meet at the famous Cafe Flore before war, prejudice, and disapproving families set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths.A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee ';What a beautiful, heartbreaking story.' Erica Robuck, National Bestselling Author of Sisters of Night and Fog Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz has become a bold act of defiance. So has forbidden love 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 includeSimone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter. 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 treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Allied Invasion • Annette Zelman • Apollinaire • Auschwitz • Beaux-arts • Boulevard Strasbourg • Café de Flore • cafe´ society • Café Society • city of light • coliseum • Concentration Camp • D-Day • Django Reinhardt • Drancy • Europe • European History • extermination • Fascism • final solution • Free French • Free Zone • German occupation • Gestapo • Hitler • Holocaust • hubert jausion • internment camp • Jean Jausion • Jean Paul Sartre • jean rouche • Jewish • Jewish History • Jorge Semprun • Latin Quarter • les reverberes • Les Tourelles • liberation of Paris • Marcel Duchamp • montagues and capulets • Nazis • occupied Paris • pablos picasso • Paris • Persecution • Polish Jews • prison camp • rersecution • resistance • Romeo and Juliet • Simone de Beauvoir • surrealist poets • Theodor Dannecker • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-8065-4146-6 / 0806541466
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8065-4146-4 / 9780806541464