Originally released by Blackstone Audio ℗2017.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Read by Bronson Pinchot.

"Seventy-four-year-old Jules Lacour- -- a maitre at Paris-Sorbonne, cellist, widower, veteran of the war in Algeria, and child of the Holocaust -- must find a balance between his strong obligations to the past and the attractions and beauties of life and love in the present. In the midst of what should be an effulgent time of life with its days bright with music, family, rowing on the Seine, Jules is suddenly confronted by a series of challenges to his principles, livelihood, and home. He risks fraud to save his terminally ill infant grandson, matches wits with a renegade insurance investigator, is drawn into an act of savage violence, and falls deeply, excitingly in love with a young cellist who is a third his age. Against the backdrop of an exquisite and knowing vision of Paris and the way it can uniquely shape a life, he forges a denouement that is staggering in its humanity, elegance, and truth."--,Provided by publisher.