In an art class at school, he had to paint boring color wheel exercises. He was oddly mesmerized, not by the dead body, but by the new color the blood had produced on his suit. There had been plenty of killings in Paris in the two years since the beginning of the German occupation in 1940, but Lucien had never actually seen a dead body until this moment.
The dark crimson fluid flowed quickly in a narrow rivulet down his neck, over his crisp white collar, and then onto his well-tailored navy blue suit, changing its color to a rich deep purple. Just two meters away, the man lay face down on the sidewalk, blood streaming from the back of his bald head as though someone had turned on a faucet inside his skull. In the very second that Lucien realized he and the man wore the same scent, L'Eau d'Aunay, he heard a loud crack.
He came so close that Lucien could smell his cologne as he raced by. Just as Lucien Bernard rounded the corner at the rue la Boétie, a man running from the opposite direction almost collided with him. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Written by an architect whose knowledge imbues every page, this story becomes more gripping with every soul hidden and every life saved. The Paris Architect asks us to consider what we owe each other, and just how far we’ll go to make things right. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can’t resist.īut when one of his hiding spaces fails horribly, and the problem of where to hide a Jew becomes terribly personal, Lucien can no longer ignore what’s at stake.
All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won’t find it. But if he’s clever enough, he’ll avoid any trouble. In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money – and maybe get him killed. “A beautiful and elegant account of an ordinary man's unexpected and reluctant descent into heroism during the second world war.” -Malcolm GladwellĪn extraordinary novel about a gifted architect who reluctantly begins a secret life devising ingenious hiding places for Jews in World War II Paris, from an author who's been called "an up and coming Ken Follett." (Booklist)
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