sentences:  The first novel, "Tempête en juin" ("Storm in June") depicts the flight of citizens from Paris in the hours preceding the German advance and in the days following it.The second, "Dolce" ("Sweet"), shows life in a small French country town, Bussy (in the suburbs just east of Paris), in the first, strangely peaceful, months of the German occupation.These first two novels seem able to exist independently from each other on first reading.