glaciers moved over these rocks and smoothed them like this.

dolce

finished "suite francaise" last night after intermittent reading for two months. the stories were written in the early 1940s, in german-occupied france by irene nemirovsky. she was arrested by police in july 1942 because of her russian jewish background and disappeared. her husband was arrested in november 1942. they both died in auschwitz. their daughters survived along with her manuscripts. the stories are about the fate of the french during occupation. the first story is about parisians fleeing the city with the germans on their heels. the second is about the life of an occupied village. the stories do not flatter the french. one excerpt notes that the french do not want the germans or the english to win the war - they would prefer if both sides were defeated.

this continues my wwII-tinged reading:
the foreign correspondent by alan furst
the samurai's garden by gail tsukiyama
the history of love by nicole krauss
molokai by ??
the ministry of special cases by nathan englander
man walks into a room by nicole krauss