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Cultural

BOOK TALKS WITH SANDRA BIBER DIDNER

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9 PARIS IN THE PRESENT TENSE By Mark Helprin Paris in the Present Tense is a modern- day story of love, music, and death.by the bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War. Mark Helprin’s powerful new novel is set in contemporary Paris which is caught between violent unrest and its well-known, magnificent glory. Its plot revolves around a septuagenarian cellist who faces his personal and professional losses in this nearly perfect novel which is a hymn to literature, music and art. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 WARLIGHT by Michael Ondaatje The internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient has written a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself - shadowed and luminous at once - we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth.

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