In the summer of 1942, more than 2,000 Jewish children were interned in a concentration camp in Pithiviers, in the Loiret region of France. From this chapter in history, Sheila Kohler weaves a compelling novel.
A pair of sisters escape deportation and find refuge with a local aristocratic couple known as Madame and Monsieur. Having survived the occupation and the lean years after the war, the couple has been reduced to taking in lodgers. In the summer of 1959, a young Sorbonne student takes up residence with them and discovers a diary kept by the two sisters. In doing so, she not only learns their fate, but reawakens old suspicions and old appetites, on the estate.
A pair of sisters escape deportation and find refuge with a local aristocratic couple known as Madame and Monsieur. Having survived the occupation and the lean years after the war, the couple has been reduced to taking in lodgers. In the summer of 1959, a young Sorbonne student takes up residence with them and discovers a diary kept by the two sisters. In doing so, she not only learns their fate, but reawakens old suspicions and old appetites, on the estate.
