by Irène Némirovsky · Chatto & Windus · tapa dura · ISBN 9780701178963
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Suite Française is a novel by Irène Némirovsky, written in two parts before her tragic death in Auschwitz in 1942. The novel was discovered by her granddaughter in 2004 and published for the first time in 2006, being hailed as a masterpiece. The first part describes the flight of Parisians during the Nazi invasion, while the second follows the inhabitants of a rural community under German occupation. The novel explores themes of love, loss, and the human condition in times of war.
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.
