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Love to read: Alan Furst novels (opens the original)
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How does it feel to take a walk down a narrow, mist-engulfed street in Lisbon in the early hours of April 1938? Or how would it be to sit at the corner table in Cafe Heininger as Paris braces itself for conflict in September 1939? The author Alan Furst is the undisputed master of historical atmosphere. His prose conjures up cities, streets, and rooms inhabited by people in Europe in the pre-war years as they sense a looming dread coming ever nearer. Into these scenarios, Furst writes compelling
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