Mon village à l'heure allemande

Synopsis of Mon village à l'heure allemande

«Mon village à l'heure allemande» is the novel by French writer Jean-Louis Bory, published in paperback (346 pages, in French).

Set in 1944, in a village on the borderlands of Beauce and Orléanais, the novel depicts the daily life of its inhabitants during the German occupation. Through their language, their jokes and their sorrows, the villagers show a quiet form of resistance while awaiting the events that precede the Allied landing.

It won the Prix Goncourt in 1945, the year of its original publication in Paris, and was Jean-Louis Bory's first novel.

For readers interested in historical fiction about the Second World War and in the daily life of occupied France.