The World at Night: A Novel download book

Book: The World at Night: A Novel

Author: Alan Furst

Pages: 288

Format: pdf,html,rtf,epub,lit,lrf,mobi

Language: English

ISBN10: 0375758585

Once again, Alan Furst has brilliantly taken us back into the 1930s and 1940s, this time to Paris in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi Germany invasion. The protagonist, a film producer who initially thinks life can continue as normal, takes us step by step through the transition from sadness to resentment to anger to resistance against a brutal occupying force.
Furst's real achievement in this novel is taking the mundane and the normal and weaving them into the difficult and violent world of war and occupation. Everyday experiences like eating, drinking, earning a living, loving and talking are the primary daily behaviors around which the characters interact, but they are all intruded upon by the occupation. This is what makes the book so "real."
Furst combines history, fiction, and the mysteries of espionage as well as anyone since Eric Ambler. He is always worth reading.