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After eighteen-year-old Deirdre finds a diary kept by two children who escaped deportation by the Nazis and their French collaborators in a small town in the Loiret, she discovers a nightmare of corruption and decadence.
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Sheila Kohler is the author, most recently, of the novel Cracks (Zoland, '99, '00) a New York Newsday "Best Book of the Year." She is the author of two previous novels, and two short story collections. Originally from South Africa, she lives in New York City, and teaches at The New School.
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In the early 1940s in the Loiret region of France, townspeople shamefully collaborated with the Nazis to rip Jewish children away from their mothers, put them into concentration camps, and eventually send them to their deaths in Auschwitz's ovens. In this haunting novel, Kohler vastly increases the emotional impact by intertwining her account of these children with the story of narrator Deidre's corruption. When Sorbonne student Deidre spends the summer of 1959 with Madame and Monsieur in their estate in Pithiviers, she discovers a diary in the attic kept by two small girls who describe being cruelly separated from Maman and their day-to-day existence in the bleak yet safe attic. In the meantime, Deidre falls under the spell of first Madame, who treats her as a confidant, and then Monsieur, who eventually takes her as a lover. But the decadent, aristocratic couple (and their servants) are both much more and much less than they appear to be. Over time, Deidre learns their shameful secrets, their shallowness and greed, and their penchant for collaborating with one another and the authorities. The diary entries she keeps rereading and the pointed questions she asks fill in missing pieces of the puzzle and eventually reveal to her what kind of people she is living with and how they behaved nearly two decades ago. Readers will shudder at the miasma of decadence and corruption that hang over the characters in this well-crafted story. Very highly recommended. Lisa Nussbaum, Dauphin Cty. Lib. Sys., Harrisburg, PA
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- PublisherZoland Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1581950322
- ISBN 13 9781581950328
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages184
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