Why in Paris

DNF at 50%. The premise and setting were interesting but I couldn't engage with any of the characters and not a whole lot was happening in the narrative. The lead character had escaped Vienna to come to not-yet-occupied Paris during the Nazi uprising but then it was just a boring day-in-the-life-of narrative about a photographer turned pornagrapher. I'm not sure how you can make WWII boring for a homosexual Jewish pornographer but here we are.