by Irène Némirovsky · Chatto & Windus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780701179939
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«Suite Française» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Chatto & Windus in paperback (416 pages, in English).
The work portrays occupied France during World War II in two parts: the first follows a group of Parisians fleeing the Nazi advance; the second, the inhabitants of a small rural community under German occupation. Némirovsky composes a choral fresco of characters from different social classes trapped by the war.
Translated from the French by Sandra Smith, the volume comprises the first two parts of the series «Suite française». The French original was published posthumously in 2004.
For readers of historical fiction and World War II narrative, particularly about the occupation of France and stories of civilians.
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.
