num_pages: 164
description: Scented by chocolate and haunted by war, this compelling novel of dark miracles and angelic visitations offers up a distinctly imaginative new voice in fiction. Marie Claire is a young French Jew in a Nazi-occupied Belgian town, cared for by her grandmother, who cultivates flowers. A shattering of glass, and Marie Claires village is in rubble. Her grandmother is dead, everyone is dead. She flees to the root cellar of her grandmothers house and waits....
language: English
title: In the Company of Angels
titlecomplete: In the Company of Angels
genres: Magical Realism, Historical, France, Religion, Holocaust, Belgium, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 224
places: Belgium
publisher: Hachette Books