![]() However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. Suite Française is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. 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. ![]() Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. Némirovsky'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 Française, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece. ![]() In 1941, Irène Némirovsky 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. ![]() **AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S BOOK CLUB, THE READING ROOM** ![]()
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