I think the whole backstory is dealt with in one paragraph there (although the book's set pre-WWII, so I suppose there wasn't the same weight of history hanging over it yet)
That's really interesting! So, yes on the Nazis, no on anything as explicit as a concentration camp, which curiously seems to make a difference to how unbalancing to the narrative I find Job's blindness, especially since the novel doesn't appear to contain any of the inner beauty stuff. There's the one thought from Manby, the maid: "No need for help here, thought Manby, suddenly aglow with pride; her lady was going to do the right thing, and she was more beautiful to Manby at that moment than she had ever been in the days of her glory." But that has nothing to do with how Job sees Fanny or how Fanny sees herself. I'll have to read the rest of the novel.
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That's really interesting! So, yes on the Nazis, no on anything as explicit as a concentration camp, which curiously seems to make a difference to how unbalancing to the narrative I find Job's blindness, especially since the novel doesn't appear to contain any of the inner beauty stuff. There's the one thought from Manby, the maid: "No need for help here, thought Manby, suddenly aglow with pride; her lady was going to do the right thing, and she was more beautiful to Manby at that moment than she had ever been in the days of her glory." But that has nothing to do with how Job sees Fanny or how Fanny sees herself. I'll have to read the rest of the novel.
Thank you!