Paris, 1870. A city under siege. A revolution waiting to ignite.
In the heart of a starving, war-torn Paris, the lives of two women, separated by an impassable gulf of class and conviction, are destined to collide.
Genevi鋦e Dubois, a radical journalist, her pen dipped in the ink of righteous fury, chronicles the suffering of the common people and dreams of a new republic born from the ashes of a decadent empire. Haunted by personal tragedy, her words become a clarion call for change, a dangerous fuse in a city primed to explode.
Far across the Seine, Ad鋩e de Varennes moves through the gilded, decaying salons of her aristocratic world like a ghost. Trapped by societal expectation and a loveless engagement, her sharp intellect finds solace only in forbidden books and ironic observations of her class's oblivious descent. But as the cannons of the Prussian siege give way to the rumblings of internal revolution, the gilded bars of her cage begin to crack.
Inspired by the enduring spirit of The Nightingale and the intricate realism of Flaubert, interwoven with the dramatic heart of Shakespeare, A Paris Elegy: The Crimson Spring plunges readers into the tumultuous, tragic, and magnificent seventy-two days of the Paris Commune. As barricades rise and red flags fly, Genevi鋦e and Ad鋩e are swept into the vortex. One will fight for a utopian dream, the other for survival, only to discover an unexpected humanity in the heart of the inferno.
From the desperate struggle for bread during the siege to the passionate debates in revolutionary clubs, from the fragile hope of a new society to the brutal, bloody reckoning of La Semaine Sanglante, this epic historical novel paints a vivid portrait of a city at war with itself. It is a story of idealism and disillusionment, of love and betrayal, and of the unexpected bonds forged between two unforgettable women caught in the crucible of history. Their choices will define them, and their legacy will become a haunting elegy for a dream drowned in blood, yet whose echoes whisper of a future yet to be born.
外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
無庫存之商品，在您完成訂單程序之後，將以空運的方式為你下單調貨。為了縮短等待的時間，建議您將外文書與其他商品分開下單，以獲得最快的取貨速度，平均調貨時間為1~2個月。
為了保護您的權益，「三民網路書店」提供會員七日商品鑑賞期(收到商品為起始日)。
若要辦理退貨，請在商品鑑賞期內寄回，且商品必須是全新狀態與完整包裝(商品、附件、發票、隨貨贈品等)否則恕不接受退貨。
