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April in Paris

A Novel

By Michael Wallner

By Michael Wallner

By Michael Wallner

By Michael Wallner

By Michael Wallner
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By Michael Wallner
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Apr 03, 2007 | 443 Minutes

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    About April in Paris

    Michael Wallner’s thrilling first novel, set in occupied France during World War II, movingly recounts the impossible love affair between a German soldier and a French resistance fighter.Roth, a young soldier in the SS and a fluent French translator, works as an interpreter during the interrogation of Resistance fighters. But while off-duty, he slips away from his fellow officers, changes into civilian clothes, and wanders aimlessly through Paris disguised as his alter ego "Antoine." One day he is drawn into an antiquarian bookshop and becomes enchanted with the bookseller’s beautiful daughter, Chantal. The two begin to meet and fall in love before Roth has the courage to reveal his true identity, or the time to discover that Chantal is part of the Resistance. Written in an elegant and arresting style, April in Paris is an engrossing novel from a promising new talent.

    About April in Paris

    Michael Wallner’s thrilling first novel, set in occupied France during World War II, movingly recounts the impossible love affair between a German soldier and a French resistance fighter.Roth, a young soldier in the SS and a fluent French translator, works as an interpreter during the interrogation of Resistance fighters. But while off-duty, he slips away from his fellow officers, changes into civilian clothes, and wanders aimlessly through Paris disguised as his alter ego "Antoine." One day he is drawn into an antiquarian bookshop and becomes enchanted with the bookseller’s beautiful daughter, Chantal. The two begin to meet and fall in love before Roth has the courage to reveal his true identity, or the time to discover that Chantal is part of the Resistance. Written in an elegant and arresting style, April in Paris is an engrossing novel from a promising new talent.

    About April in Paris

    A suspenseful and dramatic story of impossible love between a German soldier and a French Resistance fighter in World War Two Paris.

    In 1943, Michel Roth is a young soldier working in the German army’s back offices in occupied Paris. But his fluency in French gets Roth a new task when the Gestapo find themselves in need of a translator for the confessions of interrogated French resisters.

    After work Roth chooses another path – he slips out of his hotel carrying a bag of civilian clothes and steals into an alley where he changes personas, becoming Monsieur Antoine, a young Frenchman. He strolls the streets of Paris, where one day he meets Chantal, daughter of an antiquarian bookseller. They fall in love, and when Chantal warns him away from the notorious café Turachevsky, favoured nightspot for German officers and the French women who entertain them, Michel believes it is out of jealousy. Too late he discovers that she is a member of the Resistance, and his naiveté leaves Michel on the other side of the SS interrogation machine.

    What follows is a tale of desperate cat and mouse through Paris, and into the devastated French countryside at the end of the war, when neighbours are quick to betray neighbours, and even to take revenge into their own hands.

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    About Michael Wallner

    Michael Wallner is the author of several works of fiction, including the international sensation April in Paris and The Russian Affair. He lives in Germany, where he is an actor and screenwriter, and divides his time between Berlin and the Black… More about Michael Wallner

    About Michael Wallner

    Michael Wallner is the author of several works of fiction, including the international sensation April in Paris and The Russian Affair. He lives in Germany, where he is an actor and screenwriter, and divides his time between Berlin and the Black… More about Michael Wallner

    About Michael Wallner

    Michael Wallner is the author of several works of fiction, including the international sensation April in Paris and The Russian Affair. He lives in Germany, where he is an actor and screenwriter, and divides his time between Berlin and the Black… More about Michael Wallner

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.95
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 25, 2008 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307277688

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Anchor
    Apr 08, 2008 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307389527

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $14.98
    Published by Random House Audio
    Apr 03, 2007 | 443 Minutes | ISBN 9780739342121

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    Praise

    “Touching [and] thrilling. . . . An impressive debut.” —USA Today“Bittersweet, resonant….[Wallner] evokes war-ravaged Paris with a deft touch.” —New York Times Book Review“A cross between Ken Follett and Bernard Schlink’s The Reader… Exhilarating.” —Brigitte Magazine

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