Suite française

Némirovsky, Irène ; Smith, Sandra

ISBN 10: 1400044731 / ISBN 13: 9781400044733

Published by Alfred A. Knopf Distributed by Random House, New York, 2006

About this Item

x, 395 p. map 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Box number: GR0059. ; 1st North American ed. ; Twelfth printing, August 2006.

Seller Inventory # 1011671

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suite française
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Distributed by Random House, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400044731
• ISBN 13: 9781400044733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Published more than sixty years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"A Storm in June, " set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied provincial village rife with jealousy, resentment, resistance, and collaboration. 75,000 first printing.

About the Author

Irène Némirovsky 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 andThe Courilof Affair. She died in 1942.