From time to time my friend and neighbour who BookCrosses as Blower receives a bag of used books from another friend for us to divide or share or reject or something . . . This is one of the five I chose this time around, not for any particular reason as I'm not familiar with the author nor this specific title.

From Google Overview: "Paris, 1958.Ralf is alone, filling his days with glasses of red wine at Jacques' bar, waiting for life to happen to him. Then, one night, Elsa - bold, enigmatic, unpredictable - whirls into Jacques' bar and into Ralf's world, knocking him out of his cautious routine and into a life full of spontaneity and excitement.But Elsa is hiding something. As Ralf falls deeper in love, he reveals more of his past - his childhood in Nazi Germany, his time in a British tank division at the end of the Second World War. But what is Elsa hiding? And can their love survive it?Let Us Be True charts the lives of these two extraordinary characters through an era of great uncertainty, from the war and its aftermath through to the deadly unrest of 1960s Paris. Evocative, charismatic and sweeping in scope, Alex Christofi's second novel is a moving story of love and loss, of the things we hide from ourselves and from others, and of the personal cost of Europe's turbulent twentieth century."

On second thoughts, this doesn't look like my sort of novel and I'm letting it go to find a new reader without reading it!

Returned to Blower!

From my friend and neighbour Nu-Knees.
This was returned to me unread.and as we have similar tastes in books I may not like this either but I will give it a try.

I read it but not sure if I really enjoyed it as I usually avoid any WWI or II novels. There were time hops back to WWII in Nazi Germany and before the war.
However the descriptive prose was very good. Also it showed how life was in France and Paris after the war.

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