In May 1927, nineteen-year-old Dinu Grigorescu, a skinny boy with
literary ambitions, is newly arrived in Paris. He has been sent
from Bucharest, the city of his childhood, by his wealthy father to
embark upon a bohemian adventure and relish the unique pleasures of
Parisian life. An innocent in a new city, still grieving the sudden
loss of his beloved mother Elena seven years earlier, Dinu is
encouraged to enjoy la vie de Boheme by his distant cousin, Eduard.
But tentatively, secretly, Dinu is drawn to the Bains du Ballon
d'Alsace, a notorious establishment rumoured to offer the men of
Paris, married or otherwise, who enjoy something different,
everything they crave. It is here that he meets Razvan, a fellow
Romanian, the adopted child of a man of refinement - a prince's boy
- whose stories of Proust and other artists entrance Dinu, and who
will become the young man's teacher in the ways of the world. At a
distance of forty years, and written in London, his refuge from the
horrors of Europe's early twentieth-century history, Dinu's memoir
of his brief spell in Paris is one of exploration and rediscovery.
The love that blossomed that sunlit day in such inauspicious and
unromantic surroundings would transcend lust, separation, despair
and even death to endure a lifetime. This is a work of
extraordinary sensual delicacy, an exquisite novel from one of our
most celebrated writers.
General
| Imprint: |
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
March 2015 |
| Authors: |
Paul Bailey
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
151 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4088-5195-1 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-4088-5195-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781408851951 |
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