Resistance - Brossura

Shreve, Anita

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349107289 ISBN 13: 9780349107288

Casa editrice: Abacus, 1996

Riassunto

As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. By the end of 1943, the tiny room has housed dozens of Allied airmen, soldiers and other refugees, whom Claire nurses and harbours from the perpetual threat of discovery by the Gestapo.
The B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside Claire's village of Delahaut contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of the attic's residents: US Air Force pilot Ted Brice. Ted is found severely wounded and semi-conscious by ten-year-old Jean Benoit minutes before the Germans begin their search for survivors. Knowing of Claire's connections with the Resistance, and desperate to atone for his father's shameful collaboration, Jean realises that Claire is the pilot's only hope of survival.
The month that follows will stay with them both for the rest of their lives. A few weeks only, a handful of days, it is a period in which the war recedes in the face of more powerful forces - before imposing itself once more with shocking suddenness.

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Recensione

Anita Shreve writes with such great sensitivity, describing events and landscapes so that one can see them (Sunday TELEGRAPH)

Descrizione del libro

Reissue, with a stunning new cover, of Anita Shreve's compelling fourth novel -- set in German-occupied Belgium in 1943-44.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0349107289
• ISBN 13: 9780349107288
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320