Star-Crossed: A True Romeo and Juliet Story in Hitler's Paris

Heather Dune Macadam · Simon Worrall

Aug 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Christa Lewis

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Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman and dashing young Catholic poet Jean Jausion. Despite their devout families' vehement opposition, the young couple finds acceptance at the famed Cafe de Flore, whose habitues include Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Django Reinhardt, and other luminaries of the Latin Quarter's creative world. For a time, Annette and Jean feel they have eluded the brute might of the relentless Nazis-and more immediately, their parents' threats and demands. But as restrictions on the Jewish community escalate to arrests and deportations, the maleficent forces gathering around the young lovers set them on divergent and tragically inevitable paths. Drawn from never-before-published family letters and other treasures, as well as archival sources and exclusive interviews, Star-Crossed offers us precious insight into the Holocaust and the lives French people bravely led under the Hitler regime. This breathtaking true story of beauty, art, liberation, and the transformative power of love resonates with an intimate story of undying devotion, seen through the prism of history.

About the author

Heather Dune Macadam is the award-winning coauthor, with Rena Kornreich Gelissen, of Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz. Heather actively fights against Holocaust denial and is the director and president of the Rena's Promise Foundation. She sits on the board of the Cities of Peace: Auschwitz.

Simon Worrall is the author of two highly acclaimed books, The Poet and the Murderer and The Very White of Love. He was the curator and interviewer for National Geographic's "Book Talk" program for many years. He is an experienced broadcaster, whose commentaries have aired on the BBC and NPR.

Christa Lewis and her pseudonym Pippa Jayne have narrated 265 audiobooks between them. The recipient of eight AudioFile Earphones Awards in a variety of genres, Christa has also garnered a SOVAS Voice Arts Award, a Sultry Listeners Award, a Listeners Choice Award, and two Audie nominations.

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