Suite Francaise
Ir?ne N?mirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with her first novel, David Golder, which was followed by The Ball, The Flies of Autumn, Dogs and Wolves and The Courilof Affair. She died in 1942.
From the Hardcover edition.
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Fran?aise tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.
When Ir?ne N?mirovsky began working on Suite Fran?aise, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.
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Jun 13, 2007
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Suite is not sad, but it is a remarkable work
My book club read it and most of us, an international group of New York-based men and women, thought it was a remarkably clear-eyed look into Occupied France, made all the more remarkable by the fact that the writer was creating it during the actual
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May 28, 2007
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Effects of War on French citizens &German soldiers
Many characters, hard to follow story line at beginning, no major plot, yet believable because of the situation of War
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Suite Francaise
In the first part of this book, it gives you a look into the French when they were fleeing for their lives in WWII, from Paris. The second part of this book is the response from the French who are no conquered and are living with the Germans. The cha
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 21, 2007 Type: User Review |
Written Around the Time When the Events Happened
"Suite Francaise" is a unique account written when the Nazis occupied France.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 19, 2007 Type: User Review |
N?mirovsky's bitter-Suite WWII narrative.
Jewish novelist and biographer Ir?ne N?mirovsky (1903-1942) is best known for her unfinished Suite fran?aise (Deno?l, France, 2004), two novellas written and portraying life in France during the Nazi occupation of Paris between June 4, 1940 and...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Fabulous
I love her writing. Both the book and the authors life give you much to think about.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Not As Good As People Say...
It's not often that I don't finish a book. I'm a voracious reader, especially when it comes to anything that even remotely has to do with history. When I saw all the high reviews for this book, I had to give it a go.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 02, 2007 Type: User Review |
2/5 of a Superb Novel
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky is a superb novel even thought it is a translation - and even though it was published 64 years after the author died.
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