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The Book of Kings
By James Thackara
Charged with a rich evocation of Hemingway's Paris and rivaling the scope of Dostoevsky and Melville, The Book of Kings traces Germany's drift toward Fascist tyranny from 1932, when a quartet of students at the Sorbonne—half-Venetian David and the philosopher Johannes, both Germans; Justin, a Franco-Arab scholarship student; and Duncan, a lost generation American with a weakness for "old Europe"—share an apartment on the Rue de Fleurus.
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