Smoke Signals from Paris
Life-changing weeks in a Paris bookstore

Summer 1989 - The Eastern Bloc is beginning to disintegrate, the Iron Curtain will soon be history. In a bookshop in Paris, a group of youngsters spend a few unforgettable weeks that will profoundly affect the course of their lives to come.

April 2019 - A fire breaks out in the cathedral of Notre-Dame. The news spreads even faster than the fire itself, and the world watches in real time as the flames ravage the roof and the slender spire and threaten to destroy the entire structure. Scattered over three continents, the former 'tumbleweeds' relive the experiences of those carefree summer days, when life was a book with many chapters still to be written.

Smoke Signals from Paris is a novel about writers, books and bookshops, about love and loss, and the never-ending search for identity. Entertaining and thought-provoking, Elizabeth Karlhuber's novel is also a compelling tribute to the power of the written word.
Smoke Signals from Paris
Karlhuber Publications, CH - 4103 Bottmingen, 2023, 372 pages, CHF 24.90
ISBN: 978-3-9521990-9-1

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