TY  - BOOK
AU  - Druart,Ruth
TI  - While Paris slept: a novel 
SN  - 9781538735183
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Grand Central Publishing
KW  - Jewish women
KW  - France
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Families
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Juives
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Parents et enfants
KW  - Familles
KW  - fast
KW  - Family members
KW  - homoit
KW  - Children
KW  - sears
KW  - Parent-child relationship
KW  - History
KW  - German occupation, 1940-1945
KW  - California
KW  - Californie
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Fictional Work
KW  - Novels
KW  - gsafd
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romans
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Remainder of title from jacket cover; Includes bibliographical references (page 449)
N2  - A story told from alternating perspectives follows the experiences of a traumatized survivor of the Nazi occupation in France and a Jewish woman in wartime Paris who entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger; Santa Cruz, 1953. The scar on Jean-Luc's face is a small price to pay for surviving the horrors of Nazi occupation in France. Now he has a new life in California, a family. He never expected the past to come knocking on his door. Paris, 1944. A young Jewish woman is herded onto a train bound for Auschwitz. In an act of desperation she entrusts her most precious possession to a stranger. Their destinies intertwined, the choices each person makes will change the future in ways neither could have imagined. -- adapted from jacket
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