The librarian of Saint-Malo : a novel /
Escobar, Mario, 1971-
The librarian of Saint-Malo : a novel / Mario Escobar ; [translator: Gretchen Abernathy]. - x, 369 pages ; 25 cm
Includes Clarifications from history, Timeline, Discussion questions, Excerpt from Mario Escobar's Children of the stars.
"Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"-- Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted to fight against Germany. As World War II rages, Jocelyn uses her position as a librarian to comfort and encourage her community with books. When the Nazis occupy Saint-Malo it is turned into a fortress, and the German commander ruthlessly begins to destroy books deemed subversive. Jocelyn hides some of the books while desperately waiting to receive news from her husband Antoine, now a prisoner in a German camp. She writes letters smuggled to a Parisian author, telling her story in the hope that it will someday reach the outside world. -- adapted from jacket
9780785239918 078523991X 9780785260479 0785260471
2020056697
Women librarians--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--France--Saint-Malo--Fiction.
Saint-Malo (France)--History--Siege, 1944--Fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
The librarian of Saint-Malo : a novel / Mario Escobar ; [translator: Gretchen Abernathy]. - x, 369 pages ; 25 cm
Includes Clarifications from history, Timeline, Discussion questions, Excerpt from Mario Escobar's Children of the stars.
"Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village"-- Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted to fight against Germany. As World War II rages, Jocelyn uses her position as a librarian to comfort and encourage her community with books. When the Nazis occupy Saint-Malo it is turned into a fortress, and the German commander ruthlessly begins to destroy books deemed subversive. Jocelyn hides some of the books while desperately waiting to receive news from her husband Antoine, now a prisoner in a German camp. She writes letters smuggled to a Parisian author, telling her story in the hope that it will someday reach the outside world. -- adapted from jacket
9780785239918 078523991X 9780785260479 0785260471
2020056697
Women librarians--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--France--Saint-Malo--Fiction.
Saint-Malo (France)--History--Siege, 1944--Fiction.
France--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War fiction.