03-07-2025
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- New York Times
9 New Books We Love This Week
Every week, critics and editors at The New York Times Book Review pick the most interesting and notable new releases, from literary fiction and serious nonfiction to thrillers, romance novels, mysteries and everything in between.
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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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Biography
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