While Paris slept

The Resource While Paris slept
Label
While Paris slept
Statement of responsibility
Ruth Druart
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Author
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
  • A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger
  • Santa Cruz, 1953. The scar on Jean-Luc's face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the past to come knocking on his door. Paris, 1944. A young Jewish woman is herded onto a train bound for Auschwitz. In an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger. Their destinies intertwined, the choices each person makes will change the future in ways neither could have imagined. -- adapted from jacket
Character
Cataloging source
NjBwBT
Dewey number
823/.92
Index
no index present
LC call number
PR6104.R83
LC item number
W45 2021
Literary form
fiction

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