| Record Number |
721163 |
| ISBN |
1400044731 (hardback) |
| 9781400044733 (hardback) |
| Author |
Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942 author. |
| Title |
Suite francaise / Irene Nemirovsky ; translated by Sandra Smith. |
| Edition |
First North American edition. |
| Publisher/Date |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2006. |
| copyright2006. |
| Pagination etc. |
x, 395 pages : map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally published in Paris, France, by Danoel in 2004. This translation originally published in London by Chatto & Windus in 2006. |
| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents note |
1. Storm in June -- 2. Dolce -- App. I. Irene Nemirovsky's handwritten notes on the situation in France and her plans for Suite Francaise, taken from her notebooks -- App. II. Correspondence 1936-1945. |
| Summary Note |
By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irene Nemirovsky began working on what would become Suite Francaise - the first two parts of a planned five-part novel - 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: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France - where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis - she'd begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic; her daughters took the manuscript with them into hiding. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read Nemirovsky's literary masterpiece. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction |
| France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Smith, Sandra, 1949- translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F NEMI |
