Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the...
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flas...
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory se...
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virt...
A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characte...
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He s...
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice ...
Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new ...
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle re...
Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husb...
During the year of the repressive military regime, a Turkish writer gets disillusioned by the loss o...
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world an...
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
An honors graduate in literature, Wyman is stuck writing cheap erotic fiction, but somehow ends up s...
Louise, who has just written a novel, comes to Paris to meet with a potential publisher. While in th...
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that st...
Wounded to the brink of death and suffering from amnesia, Jason Bourne is rescued at sea by a fisher...
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation ...