num_pages: 715
description: By the early 1940s, Ukranian-born Irene Nemirovsky was already a successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier she'd begun a five-part epic of the human drama in which she herself would become a victim. Her daughters took the two completed parts with them into hiding. At long last, we can read Nemirovsky's masterpiece: a singularly piercing evocation of life and death in occupied France.(back cover)
language: English
title: Suite Française
titlecomplete: Suite Française
characters: Gabriel Corte, Philippe Péricand, Hubert Péricand, Jeanne Michaud, Madeleine Sabarie, Charlotte Péricand, Charles Langelet, Jean-Marie Michaud, Maurice Michaud
genres: Fiction, Holocaust, Classics, France, World War II, Historical, War, Historical Fiction, Book Club, Novels
ratings_count: 73106
awards: awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Magnesia Litera
category: Translation (Litera za překladovou knihu), awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Prix Renaudot, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Sandra Smith, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: French-American Foundation Translation Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize
publisher: Large Print Pr