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From the bestselling author of "Winter's Tale", comes a dazzling new novel set in present day Paris. It takes a deep and thought-provoking look at a life through the lenses of art and memory.

Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times, bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea, a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country, and the gift of falling in love. A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what's right. In defending the development of a new v...

Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times, best-selling author of Winter¿s Tale and A Soldier ofthe Great War, has returned with a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea, a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country, and the gift of falling in loveWhen Stephen Rensselaer, a Navy captain near the end of his career, is called upon to defend the politically doomed development of a variant of the Navy¿s smallest ship, he does...

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Un venerdì mattina del 1946, in completo beige, camicia bianca e cravatta azzurra, Harry Copeland esce di casa sua, al 333 di Central Park West a New York. Harry è appena tornato dalla guerra senza sapere che cosa avrebbe trovato in patria. A Staten Island trascorre un paio d'ore seduto al sole nel giardino a picco sul mare di sua zia Elaine, poi al ritorno, sul traghetto che lo riporta a South Ferry, si imbatte di nuovo nella giovane donna da...

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Mark Helprin's powerful, rapturous new novel is set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour—a maître at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust—must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be...

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The New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel set in a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories.Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour―a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust―must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attr...

Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour--a maaitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust--must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present.

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In Helprin's Jeffersonian defense of private property, the author explains why the popular campaign for an open source approach to intellectual property undermines not just the possibility of an independent literary culture but threatens the future of civilization itself.

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