Resistance
by Anita Shreve

Just as the Nazi occupation forces have drained her village of coffee, meat, and chocolate, the war has also depleted whatever joy there may have been in Clair Daussois's marriage. On their small farm in the south of Belgium, Claire and her husband, Henri, shelter refugees -- Jews, Allied pilots, and fleeing Belgian soldiers -- before passing them along toward France and freedom. Claire nurses the wounded, acts as interpreter, and waits for the war to end -- and, in a way she finds difficult to admit even to herself, for her own life to change.

And it does, when an American B-17 bomber is downed near their village. The pilot, badly injured, is found by a young boy who turns to Claire for help in saving him. Henri is away on Resistance work. As the pilot heals and recovers in her attic hiding place, Claire begins to awaken to the possibility of love. Over the course of a mere twenty days, closed off from the world and the war in her farmhouse, Claire and Lieutenant Ted Brice experience a life-changing passion that neither has felt before. That their love is also haunted and impossible only makes it more precious. The war recedes in the face of their joy -- before imposing itself once more with shocking suddenness and inconceivalbe horror.

Hardbound in good condition.