News of our loved ones : a novel / Abigail DeWitt.
Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true - and if they will survive to see their country liberated. Moving back and forth in time, told from varying points of view, this novel is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062834720
- Physical Description: 222 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
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Subject: | World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > France > Normandy > Fiction. |
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Summary:
Over four long years, the Delasalle family has struggled to live in their Nazi occupied village in Normandy. Now in June 1944, when the sirens wail each day, warning of approaching bombers, the family wonders if rumors of the coming Allied invasion are true - and if they will survive to see their country liberated. Moving back and forth in time, told from varying points of view, this novel is a haunting and intimate examination of love and loss, beauty and the cost of survival, witnessed through two generations of one French family.