Can two people who live on opposite sides of the world have anything in common? This is the story of two parallel lives, one in New York and one in Paris and the journey that will lead them together. Told simultaneously through the eyes of both characters.

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's captures what it meant to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. A correspondent for the Hemingway arrived in Paris in 1921, three years after the trauma of the Great War and at the beginning of the transformation of Europe's cultural landscape: Braque and Picasso were experimenting with cubist form; James Joyce, long living in self-imposed exile from his native Dublin, had just completed Gertrude Stein held court at 27 Rue de Fleurus, and deemed young Ernest a member of and T.S. Eliot was a bank clerk in London. It was during these years that the as-of-yet unpublished young writer gathered the material for his first novel and the subsequent masterpieces that followed.

这本书，写巴黎的咖啡馆和酒吧，以及在这里发生的文艺圈、影视圈、政界的名人名媛的情事和轶事。写文艺、爱、命运、人性、浮生……波希米亚的巴黎、萨特的巴黎、杜拉斯的巴黎、《天使艾米莉》的巴黎、《午夜巴黎》的巴黎。本书配有大量摄影作品，文末有著名景点的路线及开放时间，书后附有人物列表。这是关于浪漫巴黎的文艺白皮书。