Description: Following Helen Constantine's highly successful Paris Tales, Paris Metro Tales offers 22 remarkable short stories set throughout Paris--all connected by the underground tunnels of its famed Metro. The stories range from the 15th-century account of the miraculous Saint Genevieve, through tales by favorite writers such as Zola, Simenon, Balzac, and Maupassant, to many modern masters. Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white photograph and the book includes a map and suggested itinerary through the metro system.
Review Quotes: "The glittering surfaces of Haussmann's Paris are scratched and scrunched up into something far more elemental in Paris Metro Tales... Helen Constantine, whose unfussy translations are for the ages, has included stories from lesser known contemporary writers who are not often translated into English." --Tobias Grey, The Wall Street Journal