a novel De Blasi, Marlena. creator text nyu New York Ballantine Books c2010 2010 monographic eng

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x, 318 p. ; 25 cm. Krakow, 1931. A baby girl is born out of wedlock, and deposited at a remote convent in the French countryside. Amandine is raised by her governess, Solange. As global war looms, the two flee toward Solange’s childhood home, and begin a perilous, years-long odyssey across Occupied France-- and deeper into the treacheries of war 1931-39 : Montpellier -- May-June 1940 : Krakow, Paris -- June 1940 : Montpellier -- June 1940-April 1941 : journey through France -- April-July 1941 : letters from Andzelika to Janusz -- May 1941 : the same village in Bourgogne -- May 1941-November 1945 : Val-d’Oise -- November 1945 : on a train in Paris specialized Marlena de Blasi Nobility Poland Fiction Illegitimate children Fiction Girls Fiction Guardian and ward Fiction Convents Fiction Governesses Fiction Birthmothers Fiction World War, 1939-1945 France Fiction 9780345507341 0345507347 UMP 100628 20251117150246.0 vtls000046625