by Irène Némirovsky · Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442736447
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«Suite française» is the historical novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by btb in paperback (508 pages, in German).
Summer 1940: the German army is at the gates of Paris and the population flees en masse; each character reveals their true nature. The second part moves the action to an occupied village, where civilians and German soldiers must coexist and unexpected bonds emerge. Némirovsky portrays life in France during the occupation without judgment.
The work, unfinished and published posthumously, is part of the «Suite française» series (parts 1 and 2); the German translation is by Eva Moldenhauer and the original received the Prix Renaudot 2004.
For readers of historical fiction and narratives set during the Second World War, with an interest in the social portrait of occupied 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.
