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Les Parisiennes audiobook
- By: Anne Sebba
- Narrator: Polly Stone
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Historical
- Length: 16 hours 58 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 18, 2016
- Language: English
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Les Parisiennes Audiobook Summary
New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris’s history and tells the stories of how women survived–or didn’t–during the Nazi occupation.
Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life.
When the Nazis and the puppet Vichy regime began rounding up Jews to ship east to concentration camps, the full horror of the war was brought home and the choice between collaboration and resistance became unavoidable. Sebba focuses on the role of women, many of whom faced life and death decisions every day. After the war ended, there would be a fierce settling of accounts between those who made peace with or, worse, helped the occupiers and those who fought the Nazis in any way they could.
This program includes an interview with the author and her editor.
The audiobook is read by Polly Stone, narrator of The Nightingale and Sarah’s Key. In a starred Library Journal review of The Nightingale, Stone was applauded for her “impeccable narration that brings…wartime France to life with a distinctive and memorable set of voices that will keep listeners coming back for more.”
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Les Parisiennes Audiobook Narrator
Polly Stone is the narrator of Les Parisiennes audiobook that was written by Anne Sebba
Polly Stone has recorded a number of popular audiobooks, the most prominent of which is Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. Publishers Weekly praised her narration of the novel saying that ” Polly Stone gives an excellent performance… [The] novel is captivating, and the powerful narration gives it even greater impact.” She has also narrated Shaggy Muses and is the author of 1003 Great Things About Being Jewish.
About the Author(s) of Les Parisiennes
Anne Sebba is the author of Les Parisiennes
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Les Parisiennes Full Details
| Narrator | Polly Stone |
| Length | 16 hours 58 minutes |
| Author | Anne Sebba |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | October 18, 2016 |
| ISBN | 9781427284914 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Les Parisiennes is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Historical
Additional info
The publisher of the Les Parisiennes is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427284914.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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