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Historical Fiction
33 Place Brugmann
In this elegant, absorbing tale, half a dozen longtime residents of an apartment building in World War II-era Brussels share their perspectives, including Charlotte Sauvin, an aspiring artist secretly married to a Jewish man. Unlike some of her neighbors — the Jewish family who escape to England, the Russian seamstress who follows her lover to France — Charlotte remains in Brussels: 'Just as you got used to one thing, there was another. It was always happening to someone else, until it wasn't, and by then it was too late.'
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