- Fiction, Literary Criticism, General, French (Language) Contemporary Fiction
"1943 Christmas Eve on the shore of the North Sea: a little girl, four years old, sings Silent Night for Hitler's troops. A half-century later, now a singer and a famous film actress, Ingrid Caven gives a recital at an official reception in Jerusalem's Citadel of David.
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Prestige, grave, bleak and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Michael Pye
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 273
- Publisher
- City Lights Books, Gallimard
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9782070423262
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