num_pages: 416
description:  Widely acclaimed as Allan Massie’s finest novel, explores the complexities of loyalty, nationality, and family legacy after the horrors of World War II. Rife with the anguish of hindsight and the irony of circumstance, this powerful book is “addictively narrated . . . Out of one broken man’s story evolves the weighty history and treachery of a whole era” ( ). Etienne de Balafré, half French, half English, and raised in South Africa, returns to postwar France to unravel the tangled history of his father. Was Lucien de Balafré a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government? 
language: English
title: A Question Of Loyalties
titlecomplete: A Question Of Loyalties
genres: Book Club, Historical Fiction, Fiction, World War II, France
ratings_count: 147
places: France
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Scottish Book of the Year
publisher: Scepter Pubs