{"product_id":"the-house-in-paris","title":"The House in Paris","description":"\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003eFirst published in 1935, Elizabeth Bowen’s \u003cem\u003eThe House in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e is a quietly unsettling novel of love, secrecy and the emotional inheritances that bind one generation to the next. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers’ house in Paris, she meets Leopold, a boy waiting to meet the mother he has never known. The household is governed by strange silences and unspoken histories. The novel unfolds across a single day, moving between the present and the past to reveal the complicated relationship between Leopold’s parents, Karen and Max, and the events that have shaped their son’s life. In Bowen’s hands, the domestic interior becomes a place of exquisite psychological tension, where a gesture or an apparently innocent conversation may conceal a lifetime of feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003eAmong Bowen’s most accomplished works, \u003cem\u003eThe House in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e exemplifies her remarkable gift for rendering the invisible architecture of human relationships: desire, guilt, memory and the fragile arrangements by which people protect themselves from the truth. Its divided structure, shifting temporal perspective and crystalline prose place it firmly within the tradition of literary modernism, while its intimate social world recalls the intricate moral dramas of Henry James. Paris is less a romantic destination than a closed and watchful space, its rooms holding the traces of choices made long before the novel begins. The result is a novel of extraordinary restraint and emotional depth, in which the past is never truly past, and the smallest revelation can alter the meaning of an entire life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"x1ll2q23 x1a4oops x132q4wb\"\u003e\nFrom the book\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“I have always thought that the past was not dead, but that it was all around us, and within us.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e— Elizabeth Bowen, \u003cem\u003eThe House in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"x1ll2q23 x1a4oops x132q4wb\"\u003e\nOn \u003cem\u003eThe House in Paris\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Bowen's novels are among the most distinguished achievements of twentieth-century fiction.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003e— Hermione Lee, literary critic and biographer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63953410916682,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/the-house-in-paris","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}