Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Read the lost masterpiece behind the major new film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams In 1941, Irene 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.

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

Irène Némirovsky 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, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.

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ISBN 13	9780099488781
ISBN 10	0099488787
Title	Suite Francaise
Author	Irene Nemirovsky
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2007-02-01
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Runner-up for Reading Group Book of the Year 2007, Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007, Short-listed for British Book Awards: Book of the Year 2007
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