Un Appartamento a Parigi by Guillaume Musso

Un Appartamento a Parigi

by Guillaume Musso is deliciously intriguing. I bought this book proposed by Il Club per Voi, because of Paris. I didn't mind for the rest of the story, I wanted to find the atmosphere of Paris. I hadn't previously read any book by Musso, let me add this.

Oh: it was a completely different book this one. 

Paris is not described as the romantic Ville Lumiere that we know of; there are contrasts, fights; it's a peaceless place. 

At the same time, in a city living in such distress, there are two people who, for opposite reasons, want to spend, or are forced to spend, a month in Paris.

One of them is Gaspard; addicted to every kind of strong liquor, writes pieces for theater and he must produce the latest one. Another cynical work regarding society; Madeline is a lady who tried to kill herself moths before and that now, close to Christmas need some rest from this recent stress.

The apartment where these two people, for an error, a distraction  will co-live together for a short time is the one of Sean Lorenz. Who was Lorenz? At first a writer, one of that people who painted in the underground and many other places during the 1980s in New York City. Paintings that had a short existence.

Then, after that he met his beloved Penelope, he became someone else: a real painter, and his paintings became pretty quoted. Sean Lorenz became a wealthy man, with a good life, you could think.

In part it was true of course, but one day his existence will be devastated by a shocking event. Lorenz will try to understand if the reality he was living in, was the real one, or, if, behind it, there was something else, maybe more shocking, hiding into it some hope.

Now: I don't tend to read these kind of books, and while I was reading Un Appartamento a Parigi, I thought why I shouldn't do that more often, considering that I love the psychological work that there is behind for trying to discover the reality when there is a murder or an event that must be revealed.

I can't tell you more of the story, apart the fact that the two protagonists will become completely different people: real investigators and I love it so badly!

They won't never try to live their month in peace, for the purposes that they were there for; they will differently try to discover what the departure of Lorenz meant; what he was searching for before his sudden death, what he was working at, revealing the rest of a story that other ones for passivity or just because they didn't have sufficient elements or enthusiams, searched for.

Absolutely wonderful; you can't stop to read this book till the end. A fascinating story!

Anna Maria Polidori