From my recap of the event:Ī woman falls in love with a Frenchman, except circumstances force them apart, so she settles for an Englishman (“always a poor second,” he quipped). When I met Rutherfurd at a Random House Canada blogger event, he gave us a brief teaser to the novel that reminded me of a soap opera. The power of Rutherfurd’s storytelling, however, lies not in the grandness of its scope but rather in the personal nature of its moments. Rutherfurd’s story is sweeping and historical, a grand narrative about a city as seen through the eyes of its characters. The story shifts as well among time periods - we move from the building of the Eiffel Tower to a revolutionary group years later then to a point earlier in Paris history and back again.
At 832 pages, his latest novel Paris certainly requires the character list and family tree at the beginning to help the reader keep the names straight. Edward Rutherfurd is best known for his sweeping intergenerational epics.
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