ok very modest jiri statement of rationale said the power of elevate the story is equal to the power of her heroine it's breathtaking how fresh the old form of the epic sounds here and with what lightness of a bit condenses the life story of french resistance fighter and woman walk into a novel about courage resistance and the struggle for freedom and seems like a really extraordinary life and she's a person a lot of us actually hadn't heard of before this work she's not an unknown and she wrote an autobiography and there's also been a documentary made about her. yet but she is absolutely extraordinary and her life was not without contradictions she risked her wrists her life to risky to jewish children during the 2nd world war and for that she received the righteous among nations distinction from israel but she paid a big price for her activities not just a 10 year prison sentence for helping the f.l. enjoying the algerian war but she also lost contact with her own 2 children and her husband and she was also a neurologist. just a minister is this coming out in english it's out in fr