![]() ![]() These are good times before the war, but when the Nazis invade Paris, everything changes for Odile and her family - at home and at the library. ![]() In the first, book-obsessed teenager Odile Souchet tackles her new job at the ALP amid a thriving community of students, writers and avid readers. The story is told via two parallel narratives. There is a comforting element to the expectedness of the plot and odd familiarity of the characters, which is common with historical books.īased on a true World War II story about the heroic librarians of the American Library in Paris (ALP), this book tells an unforgettable tale of romance, friendship and family in the most unusual of situations. There is an element of predictability in Janet Skeslien Charles’ The Paris Library from the get-go - it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out what might happen at the end of the book, but I do not say this in a critical manner. ![]()
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