Julien Green

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around its secret stairways, courtyards, alleys and hidden places. Whether evoking the cool of a deserted church on a hot summer's day, remembering Notre Dame in a winter storm in 1940, describing chestnut trees lit up at night like 'Japanese lanterns' or lamenting the passing of street cries and old buildings, his book is filled with unforgettable imagery. It is a meditation on getting lost and wasting time, and on what it truly means to know a city.

Paris

Parisians know it so well and find its existence so natural that they never even dream of talking about it - except for novelists ana poets, of course, whose job it is to see as if for the first time, through completely fresh eyes, things to which we pay no attention.

Julian Green

An American born in Paris at the turn of the last century, Green accompanies the reader on an imaginative stroll around the French capital, revealing its secret stairways, courtyards and alleys. From haunted visions of Notre-Dame to memories of the old Trocadero, Green describes these strange and often little-known locations in loving detail. Book jacket.

Elizabeth Raines

Short, quick, and easy read! New look on an old city. Might be better for someone who had visited the city of lights before. I feel like this book could be forgettable.

Paris

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