OMA BOOKS

A Paris couple hires the perfect nanny; the first page tells you how it ends.

Evicted, a former record-shop owner drifts from sofa to sofa across today’s Paris.

A jaded Sorbonne professor watches Paris change after an Islamic party wins power.

1937–45: a Hungarian Jewish student between Paris and wartime Budapest.

1870s to today: a family’s netsuke pass from Paris to a Vienna palace and the Nazis.

In a grand Paris apartment building, a concierge and a gifted girl hide their inner lives.

June 1940: Parisians flee the advancing German army, and the city empties.

A detective who has lost his memory searches the streets of Paris for his own past.

1920s: young, poor and happy in Hemingway’s Paris of cafés and writers.

A foul-mouthed girl gets two days in Paris, and the metro is on strike.

Twenty hours on the Paris–Rome train, as a man rethinks leaving his wife.

Orwell washes dishes in Paris hotel kitchens, then tramps across London.

Breton wanders Paris after a mysterious young woman he met by chance in the street.

1858: Les Halles, the vast new food market, as a stage for hunger and plenty.

Prose poems of the modern city: crowds, cafés, windows and strangers.

1815–1832: from the sewers to the barricades, the Paris of the poor.

1819: in a shabby Latin Quarter boarding house, a young man learns what Paris costs.

A Marseille cop hunts the killers of two childhood friends in the city’s poor north.

Refugees in Marseille chase the visas and berths that could get them out of France.

1815: a Marseille sailor is betrayed on his wedding day and jailed in the Château d’If.