Paris in the Present Tense Audiobook (Free)

The #1 NY Times bestselling writer of Winter’s Story and A Soldier of the Great War, Tag Helprin reveals a powerful, rapturous novel occur a present-day Paris caught between violent unrest and its own 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 from the Holocaust?must look for a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of existence and love in the about Paris in the Present Tense present.Amid what should be an effulgent time of life using its days bright with music, family, and rowing in the Seine, Jules is confronted headlong and all at one time by a series of challenges to his concepts, livelihood, and home, forcing him to grapple with his complex past and find a way forward.

He dangers fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an action of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly deeply in love with a cellist who is a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth.In the intoxicating beauty of its prose and emotional amplitude of its storytelling, Mark Helprin’s Paris in the Present Tense is a soaring achievement, a deep, dizzying take a look at a life through the purifying lenses of art and memory space.