A countdown of cold fish who find the book and agreed suspect triumph, I pushed cries of admiration from reading this diptych, Irene Nemirovsky was planning before his tragic death, to lead to the end of the war in five volumes. The first part, devoted to the exodus of June 1940, is admirable verve and wickedness, and the second, which examines the daily life of a Burgundian village where stationed troops of the Wehrmacht), striking subtlety and nuance. It sounds like a novel by Marcel Ayme and truth to tell, the pressure of events or the consciousness of its fatal destiny have incredibly inspired the author, whose other works do not reach the same size. The edition is supplemented by books written to the quick by Nemirovsky and correspondence with his publisher, which illuminate unprecedented conditions for writing and publishing the book, miraculously returned from the dead fifty years after its author had perished Auschwitz.
