Book Club -The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure.
Led by Marcy Manas and Liz Morley
16:00 Tuesday 20 October
Our Book Talk meets once a month. Books are available to borrow from the Gura Family Memorial Library.
Our October choice is The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure.
Like most Gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews and so when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret hiding places for Jews, Lucien struggles with the choice of risking his life for a cause he doesn’t really believe in. Ultimately he can’t resist the challenge and begins designing expertly concealed hiding spaces – behind a painting, within a column, or inside a drainpipe – detecting possibilities invisible to the average eye. However, when one of his clever hiding spaces fails horribly and the immense suffering of Jews becomes incredibly personal, he can no longer deny reality. This book is written by an expert whose knowledge imbues every page and the story becomes more gripping with every life the architect tries to save.
Members NIS 25
Non-members NIS 35
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