In the Company of Angels

A Novel

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On Sale

Apr 24, 2002

Page Count

164 Pages

ISBN-13

9780786885831

Description

Now available in paperback–“To read Kelby’s novel is, in its own words, to ‘fall into a dream, a flying dream.’ To paraphrase and summarize such fine spun fiction must inevitably be as inadequate as any attempt to retell your most amazing dream the morning after.” —New York Times Book Review Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative new voice in fiction. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claire’s village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead, everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of her grandmother’s house and waits. . . .