Suite française
Subtitle: storm in June
By: Emmanuel Moynot ; translated by David Homel
Contributors: Homel, David, translator; Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Vancouver, British Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781551525969; 9781551525976
Subjects: Comic books, strips; World War, 1939-1945; History
Other titles: Storm in June
Work titles: Suite française
Description: "Suite Francaise, an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion of 1940, was a publishing sensation ten years ago; Irene Nemirovsky completed the two-volume book, part of a planned larger series, in the early 1940s before she was arrested in France and eventually sent to Auschwitz, where she died. The notebook containing the novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998; it was finally published in France in 2004 and became a huge international bestseller, including in North America, where it has sold over 1 million copies. This dramatic and stirring graphic novel, translated from the French and faithful to the spirit of Nemirovsky's story, focuses on Book 1, entitled "Storm in June," in which a disparate group of Paris citizens flees the city ahead of the advancing German troops. However, their orderly plans to escape are eclipsed by the chaos spreading across the country, and their sense of civility and well-being is replaced by a raw desire to survive."--
Notes: Adaptation of: Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942. Suite française.

Translated from the French.

Issued also in electronic format.