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LaFarge's stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who tore up a still medieval Paris and transformed it into the light-filled city that it is today.
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"Imaginative…compelling storytelling…we can't help reading on."
New York Times Book Review
"LaFarge is a confident, tireless trickster and yarn spinner…a magician on the scale of Prospero."
San Francisco Chronicle
"With his dazzling gift for bringing irretrievable cities to life, LaFarge conjures sinous, melancholic otherworlds that feel wholly tangible."
Village Voice