Hurrah for my mental faculties, I actually remembered. Of course it took me several hours….anyway, the third book I read on vacation was just fantastic. I had read one other Furst novel and really enjoyed it but had forgotten about him until this xmas when my Dad got me several of his books. The one I read in Belize was The World at Night: A Novel. In short, it’s awesome. Furst is just an absolutely brilliant stylist and he focuses carefully on the historical minutia of the era. If this book doesn’t transport you back to 1939-1940 Paris then nothing will. The plot is almost secondary to the simple experience of wandering around in occupied Paris. Pay no attention to the mediocre reviews the book got on Amazon.com, I can’t reccomend this one highly enough.