"Don’t be misled by the title of this debut #novel by #JudyBatalion, nor by her previous #book, The Light of Days, about the role of #Polish-#Jewish #women in the anti-#Nazi resistance.

Though the specter of the #Holocaust looms over The Last #Woman of #Warsaw, the novel is not really Holocaust #fiction. It does not portray a final female survivor of that embattled city. Its subject is instead the odd-couple friendship of two young Jewish women embroiled in the #artistic and #political ferment of pre-World War II Warsaw.

For Batalion, recreating the atmosphere and quotidian life of this cosmopolitan city, which once elicited comparisons to Paris, was a major aim."

https://forward.com/culture/books/817822/book-pre-war-warsaw-judy-batalion/