France Is a Feast: Paul and Julia Child's Photographic Journey
Alex Prud'homme and Katie Pratt
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Their wanderings through the French capital and countryside, frequently photographed by Paul, would...
One Hundred Twenty-One Days
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Longlisted for the 2017 PEN Translation Prize One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2016...
At Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
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After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of...
BookInspector (124 KP) rated Perfect Remains (D.I. Callanach #1) in Books
Sep 24, 2020
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No ads within App Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist...
Avedon's France: Old World, New Look
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Flying Colours
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Ashley Catron (66 KP) rated Suite Francaise in Books
Mar 7, 2018
Overall, this book was incredible. I don't typically go for this type of book (war-themed), but I was intrigued and I'm so glad I gave it a chance. Irene Nemirovsky was a French-Russian who was writing these books while all of this was happening around her in France. While the characters in the stories are fictional, the emotions they feel and the thoughts they have are very real and very comparable to what others were feeling during this time. In the beginning, yoiu will find your heart racing as everyone flees their possessions, their livelihoods, their families, just to escape the Germans and the certain death they bring. Your breath will catch at the description of the sirens and the air raids, and you will be angry at these Germans for what they have done. However, in the second part, you will find yourself sympathizing with the Germans, even after the brutalities explained in the first part. You will find yourself thinking about the French and how torn they were seeing how kind and generous the Germans were, how the children loved them so, not understanding what horrors they had committed against others. Irene paints such a beautifully descriptive landscape that you will feel like you are experiencing all these accounts first hand. I would recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in war-era books, and even those who have never read it before.