Suite française

Resource Information

The work Suite française represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Suite française

Statement of responsibility

Irène Némirovsky ; translated by Sandra Smith

Creator

• Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942

Contributor

• Smith, Sandra, 1949-

Subject

• France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. 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<U+2014>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

Member of

• Suite française

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

843/.912

Index

no index present

LC call number

PQ2627.E4

LC item number

S8513 2006

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult