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Author Wright, Michelle (Novelist), author.

Title Small acts of defiance / Michelle Wright
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (353 pages)
Summary January, 1940: After a bitter tragedy, young Australian woman Lucie and her French mother Yvonne are forced to leave home and seek help from the only family they have left-Lucie's uncle, Gerard. As the Second World War engulfs Europe, the two women find themselves trapped in German-occupied Paris, sharing a cramped apartment with the authoritarian Gerard and his extremist views. Drawing upon her artistic talents, Lucie risks her own safety to engage in small acts of defiance against the occupying forces and the collaborationist French regime, where the authorities reward French citizens for denouncing so-called 'traitors' in their community. Faced with the escalating brutality of anti-Jewish measures, and the indifference of so many of her fellow Parisians, Lucie must decide how far she will go to defend the rights of others
Analysis Australian fiction
Notes Print version record
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France -- Paris -- Fiction
Women artists -- Fiction
War -- Underground movements
Women artists
SUBJECT France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
Subject France
France -- Paris
Genre/Form Electronic books
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
War fiction
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1761062018
9781761062018