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“These Things Happen” (title translated by AI)
Pauline Dreyfus (born 1969)
English editions
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In 1945 all of fashionable Paris attends the funeral of the elegant Duchess of Sorrente, who passed the occupation strangely and kept a secret everyone knew. The novel revisits those years when ancestry decided lives, and how she faced her own.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 228 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War, Family (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, 1939–1945
- First published
- 2014 by Grasset
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9782246852605 (original)