The Book of KingsSet across the entire continent of Europe as well as North and South America and North Africa, this epic novel takes place in the years shortly before and during World War II, leading up to the present day. It tracks Europe's drift towards Nazism from 1932, when a quartet of students at the Sorbonne share an apartment on the rue de Fleurus. |
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