Suite Française
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NOTE: This Reader's Edition includes only Part 1 of the Two-Part novel.
An extraoridinary novel of life under Nazi occupation - discovered and published more than sixty years after the author's tragic death in Auschwitz.
By the early 1940's, when she began working on what would become Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported. Her manuscript was stashed away in a suitcase that her daughters took with them into hiding. Now, at long last, we can read this literary masterpiece.
"Storm in June," the first of the novel's two parts, is set in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Thrown together under circumstances beyond their control, a group of families and individuals with nothing in commom but the harsh demands of survival find themselves facing the total annihilation of their world.
Subtle, often fiercely ironic, deeply compassionate, Suite Francaise is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.
An extraoridinary novel of life under Nazi occupation - discovered and published more than sixty years after the author's tragic death in Auschwitz.
By the early 1940's, when she began working on what would become Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported. Her manuscript was stashed away in a suitcase that her daughters took with them into hiding. Now, at long last, we can read this literary masterpiece.
"Storm in June," the first of the novel's two parts, is set in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Thrown together under circumstances beyond their control, a group of families and individuals with nothing in commom but the harsh demands of survival find themselves facing the total annihilation of their world.
Subtle, often fiercely ironic, deeply compassionate, Suite Francaise is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.
Offered on Relay and sent to JDT this morning.
So happy to receive this book relay today!
Just recommended to me yesterday by an online reading friend.
Thanks so much, three104!
Just recommended to me yesterday by an online reading friend.
Thanks so much, three104!
The story of how this compelling novel (written in 1940's wartime Paris) was preserved then came to be published 60 years later is as amazing as the well-written-story of the exodus of families from the city.
The difficulty some wealthy/privileged people have acknowledging the harsh realities of war that affect everyone, reminded me of the powerful movie: Tea with Mussolini. (" Do you know who I am?)"
Makes me wonder how I would handle a similar chaotic and uprooting situation... Sometimes the best and the worst in people surfaces.
The difficulty some wealthy/privileged people have acknowledging the harsh realities of war that affect everyone, reminded me of the powerful movie: Tea with Mussolini. (" Do you know who I am?)"
Makes me wonder how I would handle a similar chaotic and uprooting situation... Sometimes the best and the worst in people surfaces.
Caught this book at my first local meetup. Sounds like a great book and had a terrific time meeting everyone at the meetup in Dublin!
Very interesting read about the exodus from Paris during the German invasion in 1940. The story follows the hardships of an upper-class society during this time and their fight to survive.
Caught at our monthly meet up in Dublin, California
