TY  - BOOK
AU  - De Blasi,Marlena
TI  - Amandine: a novel 
SN  - 9780345507341
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Nobility
KW  - Poland
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Illegitimate children
KW  - Girls
KW  - Guardian and ward
KW  - Convents
KW  - Governesses
KW  - Birthmothers
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - France
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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