Books by Sylvie Germain and Complete Book Reviews

Book of Nights
Book of Nights
Sylvie Germain, Author, Christine Donougher, Translator David R. Godine Publisher $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-87923-975-6
Stilted language aspiring to fairy-tale simplicity combines with ridiculous plot developments struggling to be fantastical to sink this French antiwar novel. The Peniels, a Flanders family living on a river barge through the Franco-Prussian War, WW...
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Night of Amber: A Sequel to the Book of Nights
Night of Amber: A Sequel to the Book of Nights
Sylvie Germain, Author, Christine Donougher, Translator David R. Godine Publisher $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56792-090-1
French writer Germain's sequel to her award-winning Book of Nights continues the dense, demanding saga of the Peniel family up through the late 20th century. Charles-Victor Peniel, otherwise known as Night-of-amber-Wind-of-fire, is the first child...
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The Book of Tobias
The Book of Tobias
Sylvie Germain, Author, Christine Donougher, Translator Dedalus, $12.99 (196p) ISBN 978-1-873982-39-6
Inspired by the apocryphal biblical book of Tobit, prolific French author Germain (The Book of Nights, etc.) here offers a solemn, atmospheric tale of family loss and redemption set in the provincial Poitevin Marais region of France. For nearly 100...
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