Books set in France (415)


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391.

Travesuras de la niña mala / The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa ES

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: South America / Peru flag Peru
Description:
¿Cuál es el verdadero rostro del amor? Esta novela de Mario Vargas Llosa está hecha para seducir. Ricardo ve cumplido, a una edad muy temprana, el sueño que en su Lima natal alimentó desde que tenía uso de razón: vivir en París. Pero el rencuentro con un amor de adolescencia lo cambiará todo. La joven, inconformista, aventurera, pragmática e inquieta, lo arrastrará fuera del pequeño mundo de sus ambiciones. Testigos de épocas convulsas y florecientes en ciudades como Londres, París, Tokio o Madrid, que aquí son mucho más que escenarios, ambos personajes verán sus vidas entrelazarse sin llegar ... continue

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Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / France flag France
Description:
Twenty years after Aramis, Athos, Porthos, and d’Artagnan went their separate ways, the new cardinal, Mazarin, asks d’Artagnan to find his three friends and enlist them to help Mazarin during the Fronde civil war. Only Porthos accepts, and the four musketeers soon find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. This cannot, of course, last very long, and they ultimately join forces in England to try to rescue Charles I from Cromwell. Along the way, they are discovered and pursued by the son of Milady, their diabolical female adversary from The Three Musketeers. Though not as well known as t... continue

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Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman by Stefan Zweig EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
The dramatic disappearance of the wife of a wealthy businessman from a small hotel on the French Riviera prompts a distinguished English widow to recount her fleeting encounter with a young aristocrat many years before in Monte Carlo. Impulsively following the broken man as he stumbles from the roulette table, she embarks on twenty-four hours of ecstasy, redemption and betrayal which will haunt her life forever.





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Vanessa Yu's Magical Paris Tea Shop by Roselle Lim EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Philippines flag Philippines
Description:
From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris. Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottom of their teacups. To avoid blurting out their fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the ones of those around her. To add to this plight, her romance life is s... continue


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Vara în care mama a avut ochii verzi by Tatiana Țîbuleac RO

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Moldova flag Moldova
Description:
Aceasta este cartea. Este povestea unei femei bolnave de cancer și a fiului ei, care ajung într-un sat din Franța și își petrec acolo ultima vară. Nu am încercat să înmoi cuvintele. N-am compus scene inutile și nu am inventat adevăruri universale. Am încercat să fiu sinceră și să mă eliberez eu, în primul rând, de niște trăiri. Dacă și voi veți reuși același lucru citind-o, acesta va fi premiul meu cel mai de preț. Nu vă speriați de boală, nu este tema principală a cărții. Cei câțiva oameni care au citit-o, mi-au spus că au găsit în ea și ... continue