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Suite Francaise (Original French edition)
by: Irene Nemirovsky

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780785928331
ISBN: 0785928332
Label: French & European Pubns
Manufacturer: French & European Pubns
Number Of Pages: 573
Publication Date: March 01, 2006
Publisher: French & European Pubns
Release Date: March 01, 2006
Studio: French & European Pubns
Sales Rank: 458374

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Product Description:
Celebrated in pre-WWII France for her bestselling fiction, the Jewish Russian-born N??mirovsky was shipped to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942, months after this long-lost masterwork was composed. N??mirovsky, a convert to Catholicism, began a planned five-novel cycle as Nazi forces overran northern France in 1940. This gripping "suite," collecting the first two unpolished but wondrously literary sections of a work cut short, have surfaced more than six decades after her death. The first, "Storm in June," chronicles the connecting lives of a disparate clutch of Parisians, among them a snobbish author, a venal banker, a noble priest shepherding churlish orphans, a foppish aesthete and a loving lower-class couple, all fleeing city comforts for the chaotic countryside, mere hours ahead of the advancing Germans. The second, "Dolce," set in 1941 in a farming village under German occupation, tells how peasant farmers, their pretty daughters and petit bourgeois collaborationists coexisted with their Nazi rulers. In a workbook entry penned just weeks before her arrest, N??mirovsky noted that her goal was to describe "daily life, the emotional life and especially the comedy it provides." This heroic work does just that, by focusing with compassion and clarity on individual human dramas

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Suite Francaise and Calumet City: two totally different, but equally absorbing novels.
"Suite Francaise' is a very fine book and deserves a wide audience. It tells, unsentimentally, the state of mind of the various characters fleeing Paris just before the Nazi occupation. There are certainly modern parallels, but this isn't the most important aspect of the novel. It is the element of the protagonists attempting to survive above all and trying to find the acceptable in evil. In the telling, we are entralled.

May I also recommend a terrific thriller ""Calumet City'', by Charlie Newton? He goes places where 'crime' writers haven't ventured before and while there is lots of action, plot twists and turns, as go with the genre, the human heart emerges too. Newton is also a great experimenter with language, creating unexpected and delightful images.

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- War and Peace in France
A beautifully written, deeply moving description of the Nazi invasion and the Vichy aftermath. Clear and precise language, compelling and engaging characters. The author's perception of the inner lives and especially the moral self-delusion of her characters is amazing. The spectrum of nobility is very narrow, the range of misbehavior broad. There are few happy families. There are lots of unhappy families dividing their efforts between self-preservation and self-justification. The invaders who are active but unseen in the first book become real characters in the second. The soldiers billeted with French civilians aren't monsters, but their role as conquerors makes it nearly impossible for them to do the right thing as individuals.

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- Suite Francaise
The book was great although quite expensive for a paperback.

Receiving the order was a problem. I received three (3) copies of the book although I only ordered one.

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- Suite française
This is a magnificently written book (also available in English). It is historically accurate (I was in France in June 1940) and describes beautifully and with deep understanding the changing ambience of the time and the individual and collective behavior of Frenchmen (and women) from diverse economic groups as well as that of the German invaders (the newly arrived onquerors)...

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