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Geraldine Brooks

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A captured British spy in Nazi-occupied France is writing down everything she knows -- but what she is writing is not what she appears to be writing.

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Two novellas about France under Nazi occupation -- written while Nemirovsky herself was in hiding, before she was deported and killed. The manuscript was not published for sixty years.

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