Suite Francaise: Iren Nemirovsky - Softcover
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Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Française is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.
Irène Némirovsky began writing Suite Française in 1940, but her death in Auschwitz prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the novel would be discovered by her daughter and hailed worldwide as a masterpiece.
Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Française is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.
Irène Némirovsky began writing Suite Française in 1940, but her death in Auschwitz prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the novel would be discovered by her daughter and hailed worldwide as a masterpiece.
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"A masterpiece" (Sunday Times)
"Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth" (Anne Chisholm Sunday Telegraph)
"An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart" (Carmen Callil The Times)
"The work of a genuine artist" (Julian Barnes Guardian)
"Magnificent" (The Times)
"Suite Francaise is one of those rare books that demands to be read" (Helen Dunmore Guardian)
"Suite Francaise is the most powerful account of that time and place many of us have ever read...this extraordinary woman's work is receiving the celebration it deserves. I defy anyone to read it without tears of admiration and pity for its author" (Max Hastings Daily Mail)
"A book of exceptional literary quality, it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank" (Times Literary Supplement)
"What is to me most remarkable is the degree to which Nemirovsky, writing so close to the event, has nevertheless distilled it to extract the significance of each moment and episode. it is literature, not journalism... Her novel is in the classic French tradition, intelligent and sensuous" (Scotsman)
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"Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth" (Anne Chisholm Sunday Telegraph)
"An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart" (Carmen Callil The Times)
"The work of a genuine artist" (Julian Barnes Guardian)
"Magnificent" (The Times)
"Suite Francaise is one of those rare books that demands to be read" (Helen Dunmore Guardian)
"Suite Francaise is the most powerful account of that time and place many of us have ever read...this extraordinary woman's work is receiving the celebration it deserves. I defy anyone to read it without tears of admiration and pity for its author" (Max Hastings Daily Mail)
"A book of exceptional literary quality, it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank" (Times Literary Supplement)
"What is to me most remarkable is the degree to which Nemirovsky, writing so close to the event, has nevertheless distilled it to extract the significance of each moment and episode. it is literature, not journalism... Her novel is in the classic French tradition, intelligent and sensuous" (Scotsman)
A major event – the first publication of a lost masterpiece written in 2nd WW France and telling the spellbinding story of a group of characters living under Nazi occupation.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0099598442
- ISBN 13 9780099598442
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages432
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