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The House I Loved by Tatiana de Rosnay
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The House I Loved (original 2011; edition 2012)

by Tatiana de Rosnay (Author)

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core.

Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a "modern city." The reforms will erase generations of historyâ??but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand.

Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty years. Tatiana de Rosnay's The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls...… (more)

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Title:The House I Loved
Authors:Tatiana de Rosnay (Author)
Info:St. Martin's Griffin (2012), Edition: Reprint, 256 pages
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
Un libro inestimable que hace reflexionar sobre lo que la modernidad, en su necesario avance de progreso y mejoras, arrolla y relega al olvido.

París, década de 1860. La ciudad está en pleno proceso de cambio, abandonando el París medieval para dar paso al París moderno y urbano. El barón Haussmann, prefecto de la ciudad, por encargo del emperador Napoleón III llevará a cabo las grandes ideas y estrategias de esta radical reforma.

Cuando Rose se casó con Armand Bazelet sabía que se unía al hombre de su vida. Su larga unión fue algo hermoso e inquebrantable. Pero hace diez años que Armand ya no está. Y a Rose tan solo le queda la casa, la casa donde nació Armand, y su padre, y el padre de su padre. La casa de la calle Childebert, antigua y robusta, solo habitada por generaciones de Bazelet, que ha albergado mucha felicidad y también tristezas, y un terrible secreto jamás confesado. Y le quedan sus vecinos, entre ellos la joven Alexandrine, capaz de aturdir y reavivar a Rose con su fuerte personalidad, sus maneras modernas y rotundas y su sincero afecto.

Por eso, cuando una carta con remite «Prefectura de París. Ayuntamiento» le anuncia que su casa y todas las de la calle serán expropiadas y derribadas para continuar la prolongación del bulevar Saint-Germain, siguiendo los planes de remodelación de la ciudad de París del barón Haussmann, Rose solo sabe una cosa: tal como prometió a su marido, jamás abandonará la casa.

Con el telón de fondo de la convulsa Francia del siglo XIX, Tatiana de Rosnay desarrolla un delicioso y conmovedor retrato de un mundo que ya no existe. Un libro inestimable que hace reflexionar sobre lo que la modernidad, en su necesario avance de progreso y mejoras, arrolla y relega al olvido. Poco estaremos avanzando si, en el camino, ignoramos el alma de las cosas.

La crítica ha dicho...
«La autora se inscribe en la línea de novelistas de gran éxito como Anna Gavalda, Katherine Pancol o Muriel Barbery, cuyas historias nos dejan sin aliento.»
Le Figaro

«¿Tendrá la misma acogida la nueva novela de Tatiana de Rosnay, La casa que amé, que La llave de Sarah, su anterior título con más de cinco millones de ejemplares vendidos en todo el mundo? Apostamos que sí, la idea es formidable.»
Marie France

«Este libro une la sobriedad de la escritura con los impulsos del romanticismo clásico. Al final, no solo queda París conmocionado, el lector también.»
Aujourd'hui en France

«Los secretos, las casas, la familia y unos personajes bien construidos crean la fuerza de las novelas de Tatiana de Rosnay. Las vamos descubriendo, una tras otra, desde su éxito internacional La llave de Sarah, que la ha elevado al rango de la autora francesa más leída de Europa.»
Le Point

«En esta novela se encuentran todos los ingredientes que crean el sabor de las historias
  libreriarofer | Aug 27, 2023 |
2.5/5 ( )
  jocelynelise_ | Aug 10, 2020 |
Readers who were enthralled by de Rosnay's excellent and heartbreaking 'Sarah's Key' are in for a letdown by this turgid, motionless tale of an elderly widow who refuses to leave her Paris home, even though it is scheduled for demolition in the city-wide renovation program of the mid-1800s.

Rose Bazelet spends her time writing apologetic letters to her late husband, and re-reading letters he and others have written to her. She alludes many times to the secret she cannot yet reveal, but most readers will have figured out what's going on long before it's spelled out. Waiting for that revelation is a tedious exercise, ameliorated only by the fact that the story itself is rather short, padded out to novel length by a physical design that's heavy on white space to make it appear more substantial than it really is.

One could, I suppose, draw an analogy between the destruction of Rose's home and the ending of the genteel society through which she moved. But that would require one to be concerned about the main character -- a task rendered virtually impossible by the lack of real character development and the unending flow of minutiae the covers the pages. ( )
  LyndaInOregon | Feb 17, 2019 |
Two stars for exploring, again, a seldom discussed episode in the history of Paris. I would remove one star for tiresome writing devices (letters, blatant foreshadowing, inane dialogue) but I reserve 1-star reviews for truly horrendous/waste of trees/someone should be fired- books. ( )
  Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 |
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. . . one gets the clear sense of a woman losing her place in a changing world, but this isn’t enough to make up for a weak narrative hung entirely on the eventual reveal of a long-buried secret.
added by Nickelini | editPublishers Weekly (Dec 12, 2012)
 
Can a novel make us nostalgic for a place we’ve never been? With her third English-language release, an uncomplicated story brimming with homespun details, Tatiana de Rosnay presents a convincing case. Nearly every sentence evokes the appeal of mid-19th-century Paris, the city she clearly loves, and her empathy for the citizens whose homes and dreams were obliterated by the march of progress.
 
De Rosnay’s delicacy and the flavor of her beloved Paris are everywhere in this brief but memorable book.

Replete with treats, particularly for Paris-lovers—indeed for anyone wedded to a special place.
added by Nickelini | editKirkus Reviews (Dec 29, 2011)
 
París, década de 1860. La ciudad está en pleno proceso de cambio, abandonando el París medieval para dar paso al París moderno y urbano. El barón Haussmann, prefecto de la ciudad, por encargo del emperador Napoleón III llevará a cabo las grandes ideas y estrategias de esta radical reforma.

Cuando Rose se casó con Armand Bazelet sabía que se unía al hombre de su vida. Su larga unión fue algo hermoso e inquebrantable. Pero hace diez años que Armand ya no está. Y a Rose tan solo le queda la casa, la casa donde nació Armand, y su padre, y el padre de su padre. La casa de la calle Childebert, antigua y robusta, solo habitada por generaciones de Bazelet, que ha albergado mucha felicidad y también tristezas, y un terrible secreto jamás confesado. Y le quedan sus vecinos, entre ellos la joven Alexandrine, capaz de aturdir y reavivar a Rose con su fuerte personalidad, sus maneras modernas y rotundas y su sincero afecto.
Por eso, cuando una carta con remite “Prefectura de París. Ayuntamiento†le anuncia que su casa y todas las de la calle serán expropiadas y derribadas para continuar la prolongación del bulevar Saint-Germain, siguiendo los planes de remodelación de la ciudad de París del barón Haussmann, Rose solo sabe una cosa: tal como prometió a su marido, jamás abandonará la casa.

Con el telón de fondo de la convulsa Francia del siglo XIX, Tatiana de Rosnay desarrolla un delicioso y conmovedor retrato de un mundo que ya no existe, de calles a la medida del hombre que albergan a personas que se relacionan, que desempeñan sus oficios unos cerca de otros, que se enfrentan y que se apoyan. Un libro inestimable que hace reflexionar sobre lo que la modernidad, en su necesario avance de progreso y mejoras, arrolla y relega al olvido. Poco estaremos avanzando si, en el camino, ignoramos el alma de las cosas.

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Paris slashed with saber cuts, its veins opened.

--Émile Zola, The Kill, 1871
The old Paris is no more (the shape of a city changes faster, alas! than the human heart).

--Charles Baudelaire, "The Swan," 1861
I wish for all this to be marked on my body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography -- to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings.

--Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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This is for my mother, Stella,

and for my House Man: NJ
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My beloved, I can hear them coming up our street.
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Fiction. Historical Fiction. HTML:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sarah's Key and A Secret Kept comes an absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during an époque that shook Paris to its very core.

Paris, France: 1860's. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a "modern city." The reforms will erase generations of historyâ??but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand.

Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty years. Tatiana de Rosnay's The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one woman's indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls...

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Paris, France: 1860’s. Hundreds of houses are being razed, whole neighborhoods reduced to ashes. By order of Emperor Napoleon III, Baron Haussman has set into motion a series of large-scale renovations that will permanently alter the face of old Paris, moulding it into a “modern city.†The reforms will erase generations of history—but in the midst of the tumult, one woman will take a stand.

Rose Bazelet is determined to fight against the destruction of her family home until the very end; as others flee, she stakes her claim in the basement of the old house on rue Childebert, ignoring the sounds of change that come closer and closer each day. Attempting to overcome the loneliness of her daily life, she begins to write letters to Armand, her beloved late husband. And as she delves into the ritual of remembering, Rose is forced to come to terms with a secret that has been buried deep in her heart for thirty years. Tatiana de Rosnay's The House I Loved is both a poignant story of one woman’s indelible strength, and an ode to Paris, where houses harbor the joys and sorrows of their inhabitants, and secrets endure in the very walls...
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