Critical Praise

"[Némirovsky] coolly explores the heat of passions old and new. . . leav[ing] readers profoundly satisfied with this portrait of la vieille France…so manifestly dear to her."

—San Francisco Chronicle

"An almost perfect miniature, a tale of divided loves and loyalties set in an insular rural French village."

—O, Oprah Magazine

"Courageous, uncompromising. . . . An entire world, vividly rendered, emerges from [these] pages."

—Newsday

"Beautiful. . . . An enjoyable . . . portrait of manners from the first half of the last century."

—The Washington Post Book World