This is a
truly wonderfully written book with an equally compelling story of how it came
to be published. I’d read the second
part first in a review: a young
Jewish mother of two imprisoned and gassed at Auschwitz along with her husband
during WWII, her very young daughters conceal and save the manuscript which is
published at last in 2004.
The novel
itself tells interwoven stories of ordinary French people caught-up in the
invasion and later occupation of France by the German Reich. These stories are intimate yet universal in
the telling of what happens when intolerance is given full rein in
society. I highly recommend this novel;
this is one of the best books I’ve read this year.
Alfred
Knopt, 2006, 395 p.
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