A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Grand-Place sits in the heart of Brussels and is renowned for its many Gothic and Baroque-style buildings. Delightfully ornate guildhouses line the square ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Alice Austen about her novel "33 Place Brugmann." Set in Brussels during WWII, it tracks the residents of one building whose lives are upended by the Nazi occupation.

BRUSSELS — For years Brussels has lagged behind other European cities when it comes to quality of life. But the city now hopes to shed that image with a radical new urban scheme known as "Good Living.

The novel "33 Place Brugmann" opens with a list of the residents of a Brussels apartment building. There are the Sauvins - a widower and his daughter - in apartment 4L. And across the hall ...

The novel "33 Place Brugmann" opens with a list of the residents of a Brussels apartment building. There are the Sauvins - a widower and his daughter - in apartment 4L. And across the hall, the ...