by Irène Némirovsky · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099488781
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«Suite Française» is the historical novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Vintage in paperback (403 pages, in English).
Set in 1940, the novel follows Parisians fleeing the Nazi invasion and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Némirovsky portrays their daily lives, contradictions and ways of survival, also showing hope and love in unexpected situations.
Posthumous and unfinished novel: the author's death in 1942 left only two parts of the planned sequence. The original was French; the translation is by Sandra Smith.
For book clubs and readers of historical fiction about the Second World War and the occupation of France.
Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française.
