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Edition 43 (1945)

NovelFrench literatureLiterary award

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Jean-Louis Bory じゃん るい ぼり Winner

This novel portrays life in a village under German occupation with an almost documentary sense of detail. Through fear, silence, cooperation, and resistance, it examines how a community is tested by wartime pressure.

A novel that follows the silence and small acts of resistance in an occupied village.

344 pages
occupationcommunityresistancedaily lifewartime ethics