A Flat in Paris E-Book

Marianne Coche

• Herausgeber: BrightSummaries.com
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 22

Beschreibung

What should we learn from A Flat in Paris, this unexpected thriller set against the backdrop of an initiation quest? Find everything you need to know about this work in a complete and detailed analysis.

You will find in this file:
- A complete summary
- A presentation of the main characters such as Madeline Greene and Gaspard Coutances
 - An analysis of the specificities of the work: a multiple thriller, an initiation story, the importance of the artistic process

A reference analysis to quickly understand the meaning of the work.

Leseprobe

GUILLAUME MUSSO

FRENCH WRITER

•Born in 1974 in Antibes

•Some of his works:

°And After… (2004), novel

°The Paper Girl (2010), novel

°The Angel's Call (2011), novel

Born in 1974 in Antibes, Guillaume Musso became aware of his vocation as a writer very early on. At the age of nineteen, he spent time in New York, which already inspired him to write many ideas for novels. He graduated in economics and taught this subject until 2008. In 2004, his book Et Après… was published in 2004, selling one million copies and translated into twenty languages. Readers have continued to be enthusiastic about each of his novels, such as Sauve-moi (2005), Seras-tu là? (2006), Parce que je t'aime (2007), etc. Today he is one of the public's favourite authors and several of his works have been adapted for the cinema.

A FLAT IN PARIS

AN UNEXPECTED THRILLER WITH A BACKGROUND OF AN INITIATION QUEST

•Genre: Thriller

•Reference edition: Un Appartement à Paris, Paris, Pocket, 2018, 542 p.

•1st edition: 2017

•Themes : investigation, love, art, revenge, motherhood

Part thriller, part coming-of-age story, this 2017 novel by Guillaume Musso tells the story of an unexpected encounter between two characters who seem to have nothing in common: Madeline, a former policewoman from London; and Gaspard, a renowned American playwright. Forced to share their Parisian rental apartment following a computer error, the two of them make a discovery about Sean Lorenz, the former owner of the house they are renting, which plunges them into the heart of an unexpected investigation. Multiple twists and turns will lead them from Paris to New York, but also to confront their inner demons.

SUMMARY

PARIS AND THE MISSING PAINTINGS

On Tuesday 20 December, as he does every year, the American playwright Gaspard Coutances arrived at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport to spend a month in isolation in a Parisian flat writing his new play.

Madeline Greene, a former London policewoman, arrived at the Gare du Nord by Eurostar and rented a holiday home to rebuild her life after a suicide attempt, to regain her strength and to be able to undergo the in vitro fertilisation process she has decided to undertake. For her, the procedure is the last chance she has to have a child.

Due to a computer error, Madeline and Gaspard are forced to share the same house: the studio of Sean Lorenz, a former New York graffiti artist who became a famous painter and is now dead.