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The Paris Architect

By: Charles Belfoure
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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 Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. 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. But when one of his clever hiding spaces fails horribly and the immense suffering of Jews becomes incredibly personal, he can no longer deny reality.

Written by an expert whose knowledge imbues every word, this story becomes more gripping with every life the architect tries to save. 20th Century Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Jewish Literary Fiction War & Military World Literature Military War

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Narration was brilliant I loved the entire story Its in my top ten I recommend it to anyone who's interested in WW2 To me it's up there with The Nightingale and Beneath a Scarlett Sky

Fabulous book

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What would you do if your country was occupied by Nazis? Lucien is an architect in Paris and doesn't particularly care for Jews, but he is asked to help build them hiding places. This pacy novel follows Lucien and his interactions with friends, colleagues and the occupying forces. Slowly his viewpoint changes and as a reader, we find he has become an unlikely hero. The narration was excellent although at times the German accents were a little dodgy. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

Fascinating Listen -wow

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I have enjoyed listening to this dramatic story.
It was uncomfortable listening at many points, reliving the horrors of the Nazi occupation. I have read other reviews about the language used and yes it was quite Americanised but only as much as a movie script would have been so it did not bother me at all.
Overall it was a great story, and was narrated well. I would recommend it.

Gripped me to the end

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German occupied Paris 1942 - Lucien Bernard, a talented young Architect, who, like so many non-Jews in France at that time, were unmoved and unsympathetic at the treatment and murder of Jews, which they witnessed whilst walking through the streets of Paris, almost on a daily basis.

Until the offer of a vast amount of money to design a unique and brilliant hiding place for those desperate to escape certain death if captured, begins a journey for him where the inner discovery of his humanity surfaces when one of the hiding places is discovered.

On an emotional level this is a book that pulls at the heart, exposes the heinous acts that occurred without mercy as well as the acts of pure bravery displayed by many others.

The book suffers a little from rather immature writing in many places. The reader needs to ignore the modern day 'cliches' and much dialogue that does not belong in 1942.

That being said the story is gripping and heart rending and it is, overall, a great read.

Compelling Read - Writing a little Cliche

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Read on a recommendation, well worth it , interesting perspective of the war. The lengths people went too.

Twists & Turns

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