Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky · 2004
Literary Fiction · ranked #173 in category
Written between 1940 and 1942 while Némirovsky was in hiding from the Nazis — she died in Auschwitz in 1942 — Suite Française consists of two novellas about the fall of France: one following Parisians fleeing the German advance, one set in a village under occupation. Published sixty years after her death from a manuscript her daughter carried across Europe without reading.
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