{"id":75,"date":"2006-04-11T10:46:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lettersandsodas.com\/books-test\/?p=75"},"modified":"2006-04-11T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T14:46:58","slug":"storm-in-june-by-irene-nemirovsky-translated-by-sandra-smithknopf-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/storm-in-june-by-irene-nemirovsky-translated-by-sandra-smithknopf-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Storm in June&#8221; by Ir\u00e8ne N\u00e9mirovsky Translated by Sandra SmithKnopf, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read an advance reader&#8217;s copy of <i>Suite Fran&ccedil;aise<\/i> in March: it only contained the first section of the two part book (it was meant to be five parts, like a symphony, but N\u00e9mirovsky was deported to Auschwitz and died before finishing it). &#8220;Storm in June,&#8221; the story of the Paris evacuation in 1940 and the start of the Nazi occupation, is stunning: the way strangers&#8217; lives intersect, what war brings out in people, how selfishness and self-preservation make people act. The cruelty of N\u00e9mirovsky&#8217;s characters is set off by the beauty of her prose: whether she&#8217;s describing the light as it fades on a June evening or the death of an old man, the details are vivid, the story well-paced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an advance reader&#8217;s copy of Suite Fran&ccedil;aise in March: it only contained the first section of the two part book (it was meant to be five parts, like a symphony, but N\u00e9mirovsky was deported to Auschwitz and died before finishing it). &#8220;Storm in June,&#8221; the story of the Paris evacuation in 1940 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lettersandsodas.com\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}