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In the Company of Angels

by N M Kelby

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Now available in paperback — "To read Kelby's novel is, in its own words, to 'fall into a dream, a flying dream.' To paraphrase and summarize such fine spun fiction must inevitably be as inadequate as any attempt to retell your most amazing dream the morning after." --New York Times Book Review

Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative new voice in fiction. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire's village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead, everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of her grandmother's house and waits . . .

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Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative new voice in fiction. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, and is cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780786885831
Author:
Kelby, N. M.
Publisher:
Hyperion Books
Author:
Kelby, N. M.
Author:
Kelby, Nicole
Location:
New York
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
World war, 1939-1945
Subject:
War
Subject:
France
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Miracles
Subject:
Religious fiction
Subject:
Belgium
Subject:
War stories
Subject:
Nuns
Subject:
Holocaust, jewish
Subject:
World War, 19
Subject:
Jewish girls
Subject:
War & Military
Subject:
Suspense
Subject:
Historical fiction
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2002
Edition Number:
1st pbk. ed.
Edition Description:
TradePB
Series Volume:
5J01-02
Publication Date:
20020431
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
8 x 5.1875 in 5.28 oz
Age Level:
from 18
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