Suite Francaise

b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER b>•/b> The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War IIb>--a heartrending/b> "portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler’s horrors march closer and closer to their doors" (New York)./b>br>br>Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, 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.br>br>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.

Product details

• Authors: Irene Nemirovsky, Irene/ Smith Nemirovsky
• Assisted by: Sandra Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.04.2007
• EAN: 9781400096275
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-9627-5
• No. of pages: 431
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage International; Vintage International
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature