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| Original Title: | Suite française |
| ISBN: | 1400096278 (ISBN13: 9781400096275) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Charlotte Péricand, Hubert Péricand, Philippe Péricand, Gabriel Corte, Charles Langelet, Maurice Michaud, Jeanne Michaud, Jean-Marie Michaud, Madeleine Sabarie |
| Literary Awards: | Magnesia Litera for Translation (Litera za překladovou knihu) (2012), Prix Renaudot (2004), PEN Translation Prize for Sandra Smith (2007), French-American Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction (2006), Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize Nominee (2007) |
Irène Némirovsky
Paperback | Pages: 431 pages Rating: 3.84 | 57797 Users | 6276 Reviews
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| Title | : | Suite Française |
| Author | : | Irène Némirovsky |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 431 pages |
| Published | : | April 10th 2007 by Vintage (first published September 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. France. War. World War II |
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The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed.By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—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: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she'd begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Némirovsky's literary masterpiece
The first part, "A Storm in June," opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival—some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others struggling simply to preserve their lives—but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, "Dolce," we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity.
Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate, and fiercely ironic—of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.
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Ratings: 3.84 From 57797 Users | 6276 ReviewsColumn Based On Books Suite Française
1 Star - Horrible book, don't even bother reading the back cover.I tried really, really really hard to like this book. I held out hope up until the very end but I just couldn't find anything I enjoyed about it. I think I wanted to like it so hard because of the author's tragic story. Irène Némirovsky was living in France and deported to Auschwitz before she could finish her book. A horrible fate of course, but I still couldn't bring myself to like it. I found the story dull, just incrediblyMUST READ! MUST READ! Wonderful unfinished novel by famous Jewish French author... Interesting story is behind publication of this novel... The manuscript stayed in a box for decades because the daughters of the author thought it is diary... but it was not... One of my favourite novels and I am proud that I was its Serbian editor... :) U Srbiji je knjigu objavila Laguna... predivna knjiga... veoma dirljiva...
I picked this one up because it resembled a historical romance. (I believe the cover to be one of the most powerful and beautiful, & just o-so-right for this particular book that I could scream!) Then I found out what the tiny particles of pathos all seemed to portend: this was a posthumous work. Immediately the work becomes grounded--it easily turns into something more important, more adult, even more delicate. This is an incredible novel which may've easily been lost forever...! Yikes!!
This novel has so much to it. Besides the story being so profound & enlightening of the French defeat & occupation, the appendages & letters interesting to get a better idea what the author Irene Nemirovsky had to deal with when writing this incomplete work. In my mind it is a compete enough work & worth the read despite some nightmares I had while reading. The reason I say it is a complete work is because this story being Fiction was a kind of non Fiction account to what she had
I'm not sure which is more eerie: that this is a posthumous novel, or that the author knew it would be a posthumous novel; that had it not been for her daughters who carried it around as a notebook, this novel would not have surfaced, or that the book gave a vivid snapshot of the exodus from Paris which mother and daughters were experiencing at that moment; that her husband was killed for inquiring about his missing famous-writer wife, or that her daughters were then hunted down by the same
Tour de force! What a breathtaking achievement - this novel is incredible! The story of how it was written is a dramatic witness account of the surreal world of France occupied by the Wehrmacht from 1940 on. Irène Némirovsky, of Jewish origin, wrote it while expecting to be deported to the East, and she had barely finished it when she was arrested in July 1942. She was murdered in Auschwitz, but her children survived, hidden until the end of the war. And with them, moving from one hiding place
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