Holocaust book with a twist - it's not about a victim. Racist, shallow, thoroughly unlikeable French architect trying to survive the Paris occupation unnoticed and unscathed is approached with an extremely lucrative one-time job: design a hiding place for Jewish refugees while being moved out of the country.Well-crafted story with many interesting & complex characters. Greedy, sadistic Nazis. Duplicitous women. Noble, patriotic women. 4th generation disenfranchised French Jews. Sympathetic German soldiers caught in the middle. Ordinary French citizens caught in a moral quandary; risk their lives for others with possibly fatal consequences, or turn their heads and live with shame while innocent people die.
Burgeoning consciousness is a beautiful thing to witness.
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