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Suite française (French pronunciation: [sɥit fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; 'French Suite') is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin.
Sep 1, 2004 · Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate, and fiercely ironic—of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. 431 pages, Paperback. First published September 1, 2004.
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Apr 9, 2006 · "Suite Française" itself consists of two novellas portraying life in France from June 4, 1940, as German forces prepare to invade Paris, through July 1, 1941, when some of Hitler's occupying ...
Némirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Française, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.
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Irène Némirovsky: Suite française (Suite française) On 10 May 1940, German troops invaded Belgium and the Netherlands and soon swept into France, arriving in Paris on 14 June. An armistice was signed between France and Germany on 22 June, dividing the country into the Northern, German-controlled area and the Vichy government in the Southern ...
Suite française : a novel. Transcendent, astonishing, Suite Française, which might be the last great fiction of the war, provides us with an intimate recounting of occupation, exodus, and loss. Its staggering power is that it affirms the idea that art can offer a path to salvation.
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Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation.
