"Beautiful. . . . An enjoyable . . . portrait of manners from the first half of the last century."
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The Washington Post Book World "Courageous, uncompromising. . . . An entire world, vividly rendered, emerges from [these] pages."
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Newsday "An almost perfect miniature, a tale of divided loves and loyalties set in an insular rural French village."
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O, Oprah Magazine "[Némirovsky] coolly explores the heat of passions old and new. . . leav[ing] readers profoundly satisfied with this portrait of
la vieille France...so manifestly dear to her."
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San Francisco Chronicle