The Emperor of Paris

Octavio, like his father before him, runs the Notre-Dame bakery, possessing the secret recipe for the perfect Parisian baguette. However, he has never mastered the art of reading, and his understanding of the world outside his bakery comes solely from his imagination and stories. Just a few streets away, Isabeau works in the basement of the Louvre, restoring paintings and losing herself in the stories she reads to forget her disfigured beauty. The two might never have met, were it not for a series of curious coincidences involving a mysterious traveller, an impoverished painter, a jaded bookseller, and a lost and found book of fairytales. The novel is set before and after World War I in Paris and is a series of interconnected love stories.

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