Play Book Tag discussion

I only bought this book, a few months ago, because it was a Kindle daily deal, and because everybody seemed to be in love with it. I'm very happy that I did buy and read it.

It is divided into two parts, the first one about the exodus from Paris in 1940, the second one about life in occupied France in 1941.

The first part, where we see people leave Paris in a haste because of the continued bombings, is my favorite – I really liked how the author described this particular historical fact.

The second part is good too, but unfortunately the novel is unfinished because of Némirovsky's deportation to Auschwitz.

The characters are portrayed in a wonderful way, we can see perfectly how everyone of them acts and reacts to what is happening, and every character seems to come alive and out of the page, so to speak. I think the characterization is what Némirovsky did best in this novel. Then there is the description of life under the exodus and the occupation, and this is almost perfect as well.

It's even difficult to understand how this novel can be unfinished (obviously it is – the story has no ending), because it is so well written that I didn't have the least impression that the author still had to work on it.