Was the world of your book realistic or easy to relate to?

I found the events and the way people acted extremely realistic. Nemirovsky did a really good job of showing the reader how the chracters true colours really shine in the act of desperate times. Which made the book a bit easier to get into. I think it is also easy to relate to, when i was in downtown Vacouver in the middle of a riot after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup, i saw how the people that did not want to be involved were acting. People just wanted to leave the area and some of them didnt care if they left their friends behind. I can see how people would act selfish in times of war that Nermirovsky wrote about.