Suite Francaise

A masterpiece * Sunday Times *Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth – Anne Chisholm * Sunday Telegraph *An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart – Carmen Callil * The Times *The work of a genuine artist – Julian Barnes * Guardian *Magnificent * The Times *Suite Francaise is one of those rare books that demands to be read – Helen Dunmore * Guardian *Suite Francaise is the most powerful account of that time and place many of us have ever read…this extraordinary woman’s work is receiving the celebration it deserves. I defy anyone to read it without tears of admiration and pity for its author – Max Hastings * Daily Mail *A book of exceptional literary quality, it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank * Times Literary Supplement *What is to me most remarkable is the degree to which Nemirovsky, writing so close to the event, has nevertheless distilled it to extract the significance of each moment and episode. it is literature, not journalism… Her novel is in the classic French tradition, intelligent and sensuous * Scotsman *A beautifully observed, devastating critique of French society on the brink of war – Catherine Taylor * i *

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.

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