Suite francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Suite Fran?aise is an extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation - recently discovered and published 64 years after the author's death in Auschwitz. In the early 1940s, Ir?ne N?mirovsky was a successful writer living in Paris. But she was also Jewish, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Her two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, escaped, carrying with them, in a small suitcase, the manuscript - one of the great first-hand novelistic accounts of a way of life unravelling. Part One, A Storm in June, is set in the chaos of the tumultuous exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. As the German army approaches, Parisians seize what belongings they can and flee the city, the wealthy and the poor alike searching for means to escape. Thrown together under circumstances beyond their control, a group of families and individuals with nothing in common but the harsh demands of survival find themselves facing the annihilation of their world, and human natuIrene Nemirovsky (1903-1942) was from a affluent banking family in Kiev, Ukraine, and escaped to France following the Russian Revolution. She began writing after attending the Sorbonne in Paris and quickly found success with David Golder, which was followed by more than a dozen subsequent books. She was regularly published in French newspapers and literary publications throughout her life. In 1942, she perished in Auschwitz. Suite Francaise was published posthumously for the first time more than sixty years later. It went on to become a worldwide bestseller, with about a million copies sold in the United States alone.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782070336760 |
| ISBN 10 | 207033676X |
| Title | Suite francaise |
| Author | Irene Nemirovsky |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Livre de Poche |
| Year published | 2006-03-16 |
| Number of pages | 573 |
| 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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