New York: Overlook Press, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel set in a present-day Paris "caught between violent unrest and its well-known, inescapable glories. Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour - a matre 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 of life and love in the present.. . He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls in love with a young cellist a third his age." 394 pp. ISBN: 978-1468314762.