An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author\'s tragic death at Auschwitz.
For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown..
But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died.
When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française , she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris.
Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy--in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. --The New York Times Book Review Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, 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.
A tour de force.
Stunning....
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II --a heartrending portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler\'s horrors march closer and closer to their doors ( New York).
Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.
An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author\'s tragic death at Auschwitz
