13 Rue Therese

Name: 13 Rue Therese
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Elena Mauli Shapiro
ISBN: 9781449867690

Author: Elena Mauli Shapiro

Narrator: Jefferson Mays, Mia Barron

Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/16/2018

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

French-born author Elena Mauli Shapiro vividly recreates Paris during World War I in this captivating novel. 13 rue ThErEse follows Trevor Stratton, an American academic working in Paris who discovers a keepsake box dated back to the Great War. The box, Trevor discovers, belonged to a piano teacher named Louise Brunet. Inside it are mementos that give Trevor clues to Louise's life, including the love she lost in the war and her affair with a neighbor. Mesmerized, Trevor begins to imagine what life was like for the mysterious Frenchwoman.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vonia

There is a lot going on here. A lot. Is it possible to hate a novel while admiring it? Wavering between such extremes from chapter to chapter? Respecting the author for her ingenuity while often doubting her acuity? Being in awe of her prose one moment but questioning her graduate degrees in writing......more

Goodreads review by Jeanette

This intriguing read was given to me from a friend who had purchased it from a little bookshop at my favourite place in Paris, l’Opera. My friend wrote a small note to say she had to read it twice as she thought she had missed something in it. I almost had the same experience but being warned I trie......more

Goodreads review by Mitch

This book is unlike anything I have ever read before. Bizarre and at times confusing, yet always enthralling. Only a French woman could devise a tale so unique and lovely as this! Props to Elena Mauli Shapiro! Now, I must say, this book isn't for everyone. It's quirk factor is FULL HILT and some peo......more