Suite Française
Edition: First Vintage International edition (1)
Publisher: Vintage International; Vintage
Published: 2007-05
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781400096275
Copyright date: 2006
Subjects: French Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - General; Historical - General; Literary; Fiction / Literary; France; German occupation, 1940-1945; History; World War, 1939-1945
Description: Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.

When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.
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Table of contents: title: Translator¿s Note; title: ix; title: Map; title: xi; title: Part One; title: Storm in June; title: ?; title: Part Two; title: Dolce; title: ???; title: Appendix I; title: Irène Némirovsky¿s handwritten notes on the situation in France; title: and her plans for Suite Française, taken from her notebooks; title: ???; title: Appendix II; title: Correspondence ????¿????; title: ???; title: Preface to the French Edition; title: ??; title: Acknowledgements