Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War II-a heartrending "portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitler's horrors march closer and closer to their doors" (New York).

"Stunning.... A tour de force." -The New York Times Book Review

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, as Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way:
a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified
at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving
on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn
to coexist with the enemy-in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.

When
Irne Nmirovsky began working on Suite Franaise, she was already a highly successful
writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and
deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained
hidden and unknown.