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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Thanks for the tip. I've been debating wading into this. I haven't trusted the glowing reviews because literary praise has become so political, and politicaly there's so much to admire about this book, apart from the literary merit. I understand that though a Jew (converted to Catholicism, correct?) the novel doesn't cover the Jews at all.
How strange the irony that she wound up being liquidated as a Jew. When they come after the Mormons they better not get me, because I'm inocent of that crime.
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Actually her grandparents were Jews, but her parents and herself were cathlolic. She was born and raised a catholic. There is no mention of the Jews at all in the book.
It more deals with the daily life and hassle of first evacuating Paris and then dealing with the occupation and having the German soldiers living among them, beign a part of their lives and how their daily life was.
I didn't find it political at all, just matter of fact this is the way different classes have to deal with this crap.