Suite Francaise (French language edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: French & European Pubns
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  367 reviews
Sales Rank: 423509
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0828853061
EAN: 9780828853064
ASIN: 0828853061
Publication Date: March 1, 2006
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Product Description
A lost masterpiece of French literature, this epic novel of life under Nazi occupation was discovered 62 years after the author’s tragic death at Auschwitz. Originally intended to be in five parts, the two that form this work are complete in themselves. Part One, "A Storm in June," is set in the chaos and mayhem of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Part Two, "Dolce," opens in the provincial town of Bussy during the first influx of German soldiers. Each part features a rich cast of characters—people who never should have met, but come to form ambiguous relationships as they are forced to endure circumstances beyond their control.
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Irene Nemirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with her first novel, David Golder, which was followed by The Ball, The Flies of Autumn, Dogs and Wolves and The Courilof Affair. She died in 1942.
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 Yes, yes, it IS worth five stars! September 1, 2008
This book was highly recommended to me by someone with great taste in books. After purchasing it, I apparently read a few pages, and set it aside; I found the bookmark only several pages into it when I opened it again last night.
Some rapt hours later, I finished it, stunned I had EVER put it down before. I then read all the other appended information about the author and her family, including her murder at only 39 by the Nazis, after she had finished only two parts of the planned five in the "suite."
Today I have looked through the Amazon reviews, and have to wonder about those people who give it only a few stars, and complain it has too many characters. Didn't they ever read Tolstoy? Dostoyevsky? Sometimes I needed a chart to keep the characters straight! That certainly didn't keep me from recognizing the greatness of the novels.
Now to check out her other works. Her ability to change "voice" with each character is so subtle, yet so convincing I felt I was inside their thoughts. I can't wait to read more of her.
Please, if you can't get into this in the first few pages, find a little block of time and go further. It WILL be worth it.
Suite Francaise August 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is a shame we will never be able to read the entire body of work Irene Namirovske had planned. I enjoyed reading the first two parts and also felt the two appendices were valuable. The first indicated Namirovsky's plan for her 5 part Suite. The second were the frantic and poignant letters that were sent in a vain attempt to save her life.
 Bittersweet August 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderfully written with insight into the emotional strain inflicted on people who have no say in times of war. As the characters unfolded, a long process at that, the reader feels a since of hopelessness not so much because of the war but because freedom had been taken from these people. The German soldiers were as much victims of a bad government as the people in occupied France. I'd give this book five stars if it didn't take so long to weed out how the characters were connected. A sense of sadness lingers. Wil A. Emerson
 HELP!!!! August 16, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm trying.....I'm really trying to like this book!! I was excited when I bought it and couldn't wait to start reading it.......well, a few pages into it, I kept thinking.....HUH??!! It's extremely confusing, it jumps all over the place from a set of characters to others, and does not grip you, at all. Some review, I believe listed in the book, said that this book was better than the Diary of Anne Frank, don't fall for that!! I'm on page 108, and I've been struggling to get that far within a week, where, usually, I can read that much (and more) within a day. If you haven't bought this book............save your money, unless you feel you may be like some of the others who wrote a review on how great this book was. Wish me luck, I'm going to keep on reading, after all $14.95 plus tax is $14.95.........I may not finish, but I will try in her memory and I believe every person has a story to tell. I don't know if this book has a section on her life, her story, I do hope so.
 left me hungry to read more August 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was transported back to war torn France and walked the dusty roads to the concentration camps with other prisoners or so it seemed. How lucky was I to be able to imagine and not recount from personal experience. The author has a story to tell and elegantly she succeeds allowing generations after her to know what it was like for people caught up in such madness. I took this book along with two others on holiday and settled down on the hot sands to read, I was unprepared for such a brilliant read.
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