A Novel
By Anita Shreve
"As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Dussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. But the B-17 bomber that crash-lands outside the village of Delahaut contains the man who will be both the last and the most significant of her temporary residents.
Severity reflects intensity, not value — “central theme” means a warning is a core part of the book, not that the book is bad.