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By the early 1940s, 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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Correspondence, Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, History, Historical fiction, German occupation, Literature, Historical - General, Fiction - Historical, German Occupation of France (1940-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01353176, Large type books, French fiction, Translations into Vietnamese, Guerre, 1939-1945 (Mondiale, 2e), Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, France, fiction, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, war & military, World war, 1939-1945--france--fiction, Pq2627.e4 s8513 2006, 000119625, 843/.912, World literature, Fiction subjects, Peoples & cultures - fictionPeople
Irène Némirovsky, Charlotte Péricand, Hubert Péricand, Philippe Péricand, Gabriel Corte, Charles Langelet, Maurice Michaud, Jeanne Michaud, Jean-Marie Michaud, the Sabarie family, Madeleine Sabarie, Lucile Angellier, Bruno von Falk, Benoît Sabarie, BonnetTimes
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February 2006, Salamandra, Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions
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Suite Frangaise (Reviewers' Choice)
December 2006, Thorndike Press
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Écrit dans le feu de l'Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l'Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Irène Némirovsky traque les innombrables petites lâchetés et les fragiles élans de solidarité d'une population en déroute. Cocottes larguées par leur amant, grands bourgeois dégoûtés par la populace, blessés abandonnés dans des fermes engorgent les routes de France bombardées au hasard... Peu à peu l'ennemi prend possession d'un pays inerte et apeuré. Comme tant d'autres, le village de Bussy est alors contraint d'accueillir des troupes allemandes. Exacerbées par la présence de l'occupant, les tensions sociales et frustrations des habitants se réveillent...Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, dévoilant avec une extraordinaire lucidité l'âme de chaque Français pendant l'Occupation (enrichi de notes et de la correspondance d'Irène Némirovsky), Suite française ressuscite d'une plume brillante et intuitive un pan à vif de notre mémoire.
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