Suite Francaise
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Author: I Nemirovsky
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 416
Suite Fran aise has all the ingredients of a major bestseller- one of the few novels about occupied France, it is also one of the few novels by a Holocaust victim; the story behind its rediscovery is extraordinary; the life of the author is fascinating and moving; but, most importantly, it is a hugely compelling work of literature, elegantly, subtly and simply written, with astounding insight into the moral complexities of the human condition. Written during 1941 and 1942, when Ir ne Nemirovsky, her husband and two small daughters were living quietly in the French countryside, trying to avoid scrutiny for their Jewishness, Suite Fran aise comprises two parts of what might have been a four or five-part work had Irene not been taken to Auschwitz. She conceived of it as a symphony or her War and Peace. In the first part she tells of the exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Bourgeois and working-class characters alike pack up their belongings and flee, forced to rub shoulders in traffic-jams on the crowded roads south, some behaving with dignity, others with nauseating selfishness. In part two we meet several of them again in a small French village where Nazi soldie
Author: I Nemirovsky
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 416
Suite Fran aise has all the ingredients of a major bestseller- one of the few novels about occupied France, it is also one of the few novels by a Holocaust victim; the story behind its rediscovery is extraordinary; the life of the author is fascinating and moving; but, most importantly, it is a hugely compelling work of literature, elegantly, subtly and simply written, with astounding insight into the moral complexities of the human condition. Written during 1941 and 1942, when Ir ne Nemirovsky, her husband and two small daughters were living quietly in the French countryside, trying to avoid scrutiny for their Jewishness, Suite Fran aise comprises two parts of what might have been a four or five-part work had Irene not been taken to Auschwitz. She conceived of it as a symphony or her War and Peace. In the first part she tells of the exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Bourgeois and working-class characters alike pack up their belongings and flee, forced to rub shoulders in traffic-jams on the crowded roads south, some behaving with dignity, others with nauseating selfishness. In part two we meet several of them again in a small French village where Nazi soldie
Format: Hardback
Description
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: I Nemirovsky
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 416
Suite Fran aise has all the ingredients of a major bestseller- one of the few novels about occupied France, it is also one of the few novels by a Holocaust victim; the story behind its rediscovery is extraordinary; the life of the author is fascinating and moving; but, most importantly, it is a hugely compelling work of literature, elegantly, subtly and simply written, with astounding insight into the moral complexities of the human condition. Written during 1941 and 1942, when Ir ne Nemirovsky, her husband and two small daughters were living quietly in the French countryside, trying to avoid scrutiny for their Jewishness, Suite Fran aise comprises two parts of what might have been a four or five-part work had Irene not been taken to Auschwitz. She conceived of it as a symphony or her War and Peace. In the first part she tells of the exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Bourgeois and working-class characters alike pack up their belongings and flee, forced to rub shoulders in traffic-jams on the crowded roads south, some behaving with dignity, others with nauseating selfishness. In part two we meet several of them again in a small French village where Nazi soldie
Author: I Nemirovsky
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 416
Suite Fran aise has all the ingredients of a major bestseller- one of the few novels about occupied France, it is also one of the few novels by a Holocaust victim; the story behind its rediscovery is extraordinary; the life of the author is fascinating and moving; but, most importantly, it is a hugely compelling work of literature, elegantly, subtly and simply written, with astounding insight into the moral complexities of the human condition. Written during 1941 and 1942, when Ir ne Nemirovsky, her husband and two small daughters were living quietly in the French countryside, trying to avoid scrutiny for their Jewishness, Suite Fran aise comprises two parts of what might have been a four or five-part work had Irene not been taken to Auschwitz. She conceived of it as a symphony or her War and Peace. In the first part she tells of the exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Bourgeois and working-class characters alike pack up their belongings and flee, forced to rub shoulders in traffic-jams on the crowded roads south, some behaving with dignity, others with nauseating selfishness. In part two we meet several of them again in a small French village where Nazi soldie
Suite Francaise