Book by Kohler Sheila
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In the summer of 1942, more than two thousand Jewish children were interned in a concentration camp in Pithiviers, in the Loiret region of France. From this shameful chapter of history, Sheila Kohler weaves an extraordinary and compelling novel first published in 2001 and now appearing in paperback for the first time.
In Children of Pithiviers, a pair of young sisters escape deportation and find shelter with a local aristocratic couple known to all as Madame and Monsieur. Seventeen years later, a beautiful young Sorbonne student arrives to spend the summer as a "paying guest" of Madame and Monsieur, whose fortunes have diminished considerably since the war. Eighteen-year-old Deirdre discovers a diary kept by the two Jewish girls. In doing so, she not only learns their fate, but reawakens old suspicions, and old appetites on the estate.
Time Out
“Kohler’s slim volume holds in its easy grasp the liveliness and corruption, the yearning and the evil that run just below our civilized skins."
The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Artful . . . sensual and psychological . . . it stays with you like the words of the doomed children."
Margot Livesey, author of Banishing Verona and Eva Moves the Furniture
“Intricate and endlessly surprising. . . . A beautiful and important book.”
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Hardcover. Etat : USED_FINE. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy has been SIGNED by Sheila Kohler on the title page! A stunning, deliberately-paced tale of innocence and corruption, set against the persistent drumbeat of collaberationist France. It is a portrait of the frailties of youth and the decadence of old age, of love descending into cruelty, and a frank depiction of sexual awakening mingling warily, and finally horribly, with the discovery of evil. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 4885
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