Suite Francaise

Suite Francaise

In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Nemirovsky’s death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Francaise, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.

Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Francaise 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 Francaise 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.

Format Paperback | 416 pages
Dimensions 152 x 233 x 31mm | 545g
Publication date 02 Mar 2006
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Chatto & Windus
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
ISBN13 9780701179939

By (author) Irene Nemirovsky , Translated by Sandra Smith