Russ Rymer

reads from

Paris Twilight:
A Novel

This event includes a book signing

Date

Jul
2
Tuesday
July 2, 2013
7:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome author and journalist RUSS RYMER for a reading of his new novel, Paris Twilight.

Matilde Anselm, professor of cardiac anesthesiology, arrives in Paris from New York to be part of a surgery team in the winter of 1990, as manifestations against the First Gulf War are raging in the streets. Even as her concerns mount over the shadowy protocols surrounding the planned heart transplant, and even as she falls in love with the Arab diplomat in charge of those protocols, a surprise inheritance—a mysterious Paris apartment and a trove of love letters from the Spanish Civil War, bequeathed to her by a stranger—sweep her through a hidden Paris and into the labyrinth of her own buried past.

As the diplomat and the apartment reluctantly reveal their secrets, the tragedies they unearth open a further mystery, the enigma that has haunted Matilde’s life. In the end she is left devastated, liberated, and, for the very first time, herself.

Paris Twilight grapples with the meaning of love, the sin of suicide, and the mystery of family in a masterful fiction debut, a dizzying tale of personal transformation.


Russ Rymer
Russ Rymer

Russ Rymer

Russ Rymer is the Joan Leiman Jacobson Non-Fiction Writer in Residence at Smith College. Rymer has contributed articles to The New Yorker, National Geographic, Harper’s, Atlantic, Smithsonian, Vogue, Los Angeles Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and The Strad. His book Genie—A Scientific Tragedy received a 1995 Whiting Writers Award and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. American Beach—A Saga of Race, Wealth, and Memory was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year Award for Researched Non-fiction, and named a New York Times Notable Book.

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