Name: Suite Francaise
Price: 600.00 TWD
Availability: InStock
Author: Nemirovsky, Irene
ISBN: 9781400096275

Type

Physical Book

Author

Irène Némirovsky

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

448

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 13.4 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.33 kg.

ISBN

1400096278

ISBN13

9781400096275

Synopsis "Suite Francaise"

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II--a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler's horrors march closer and closer to their doors" (New York). "Stunning.... A tour de force." --The New York Times Book ReviewBeginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, as Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy--in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française, 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, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

Irène Némirovsky

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Irène Némirovsky (Kiev, February 11, 1903-Auschwitz concentration camp, August 17, 1942) was a writer born in the Russian Empire who lived in France from her youth and wrote in French. She was deported to Germany under racial laws due to her Jewish origin, although she had converted to Catholicism in 1939, and died in Auschwitz at the age of 39.

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