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SUITE FRANCAISE
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| By: |
Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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£7.29 |
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£2.70 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099488787 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099488781 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2006 |
| Pages: |
416 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
With a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion, this book tells about the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Nemirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Francaise, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece. Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Francaise falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Francaise is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Runner-up for Reading Group Book of the Year 2007
Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award:
Short-listed for British Book Awards: Book of the Year 2007 |
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Returnable |
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