In the Company of Angels (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786885831)

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. . . .

Author: N. M. Kelby
ISBN-10: 0786885831
ISBN-13: 9780786885831
Publisher: Hachette Books
Language: English
Published: 04/24/2002
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.00w x 0.44d
Award: Minnesota Book Award - Finalist