Of book power & friendship bonds
The obsession with World War II continues and from all indications, is not likely to die down anytime soon. Paris, 1939: Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet
| 1 April 2021 1:52 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: The obsession with World War II continues and from all indications, is not likely to die down anytime soon. Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; Remy, her twin brother who she adores; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library s legendary director, Dorothy Reeder.
When World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear including her beloved library. After the Nazi army marches into the City of Light and declares a war on words, Odile and her fellow librarians join the Resistance with the best weapons they have: books. Again and again, they risk their lives to help their fellow Jewish readers, but by war s end, Odile tastes th
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Reading is my passion. I can’t imagine not having access to books, yet this is exactly what happened to Jewish readers in France during World War II. During the Nazi Occupation, Jewish people were stripped of their rights. They could no longer work in many professions. They did not have the right to enter parks or libraries.
They were in tremendous danger: a quarter of France’s Jewish population was killed. Yet librarians at the time reached out to Jewish readers to ensure they remained part of the community. My novel,
The Paris Library, tells the true tale of the international team of librarians who defied the Nazis in order to hand-deliver books to Jewish readers.
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