Suite Francaise

Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith

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Vintage
01 April 2007

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Already acclaimed as a classic, this is the lost masterpiece behind the major new film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams
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'A masterpiece' The Sunday Times

In 1941, Ir ne Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Nemirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Fran aise, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.

Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Fran aise falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Fran aise is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.

By: Irène Némirovsky
Translated by: Sandra Smith
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 293g
ISBN: 9780099488781
ISBN 10: 0099488787
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 01 April 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Irene Nemirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist . She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Eveque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irene began writing Suite Francaise. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Reviews for Suite Francaise

A masterpiece * Sunday Times * Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth -- Anne Chisholm * Sunday Telegraph * An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart -- Carmen Callil * The Times * The work of a genuine artist -- Julian Barnes * Guardian * Magnificent * The Times *

Runner-up for Reading Group Book of the Year 2007
Runner-up for Reading Group Book of the Year 2007.
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Book of the Year 2007
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007
Shortlisted for British Book Awards: Book of the Year 2007.
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults 2007.
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007.
Shortlisted for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007.