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Resistance : A Novel by Shreve, Anita is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers Weekly As in her earlier novels, Shreve (Eden Close) affectingly explores themes of love and loss with piercing clarity, once again capturing the fragile emotions of those in pain. Here, however, she moves from her customary domestic, contemporary milieu to WWII Europe?to the Belgian village of Delahaut, where young Claire Daussois and her husband, Henri, are members of an underground resistance movement. When a British plane goes down outside the town in December 1943, the plucky 10-year-old Jean Benoit finds a survivor, Ted Brice, hides him in his father's barn and then summons the aid of Mme. Daussois. As she has done with other refugees, Claire shelters the 22-year-old captain in her attic. When it becomes necessary for Henri to go into hiding, Claire and Ted embark on a brief affair, a passionate liaison made more poignant by its simultaneous inevitability and futility. With deceptive simplicity and superb control, Shreve evokes the impersonal horrors of wartime and its heartbreaking personal tragedies?often combining those elements to almost overwhelming effect, as when Jean witnesses the execution of several townspeople as reprisal for their resistance activ

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Shreve, Anita
Publisher
Hachette Digital, Inc.
Published
1995
Language
EN
ISBN
9780316789844
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance
Rating
3.75 / 5 (51 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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