Make it 3.5 stars. This is a actually two novellas placed together, both dealing with occupied France. The first, and best, of the two looks at a variety of characters running from Paris as the Nazis take over. You get the rich and poor, young and old, and get a feel for what it must have been like ...
Nemirovsky, a well-regarded French novelist living in France, was also Russian Jew, although she had converted to Catholicism. While she was working on a suite of novellas about WWII Nazi-occupied France, she was arrested and taken to Auschwitz, where she was gassed at age 39. There were supposed to...
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