Very beautiful novel, very striking because of its everydayness, its way of describing the life of man and woman in the world, the baseness of chacuns, small arrangements with their consciences chacuns. It is a microscopic view of what constituted the whole hideous Nazi regime and how the hydra could eliminate any notion of sedition as an organism rejects foreign bodies with antibodies. The writing is clear, unadorned and wonderfully well the intention of the author.