“Suite Française” is the title of Irene Nemirovsky’s last
book, a volume containing 2 novels: the 1st dealing with the flight
of refugees from Paris in 1940 (“Storm in June”), while the 2nd
deals with the early part of the Nazi occupation (“Dolce”). Irene Nemirovsky
had originally wanted to write a linked series of 4 or 5 books – her “War and
Peace”, but she was arrested by gendarmes shortly after completing the 2nd
part, “Dolce”. The book is filled with wonderful characters, with bankers and
aristocrats having to rub shoulders with the rough working classes in the chaos
of wartime France, with some women either falling for German soldiers, or
resisting them… Yet, despite this ugliness, hope remains… To find out more
about the author, you must visit our Irene Nemirovsky
page.
Authortrek reader F. L. Franko:
“the book was a great surprise and stands (in my mind) as one of the finer
documents of a most terrible period as both a time capsule of a particular
historical moment (including descriptions of the tiniest details of living now
lost in modern times,) as well as timeless explorations of the strengths and
failures of human character under stress”.
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