Malevil is a 1972 French novel about a man who restores a medieval castle in rural France as a tourist attraction. He and some friends and employees are in a vault deep int he castle bottling wine when a nuclear holocaust hits the region, and therefore survive. The novel starts out slow, but picks up pace nicely after the bomb drops. Nice character development, and this work doesn't suffer for being translated from French, although it feels a bit dated today. It was made into a movie in 1981, which wasn't released in the U.S., although it may be available on DVD. I'd rate it an 8.5 out of 10, which is pretty high for me.
The book is hard to find, and relatively expensive when you do find it.
Robert Merle also wrote The Day of the Dolphin, which was made into a movie, I think with George C. Scott.
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