Suite Française

Suite Française

• France
• World War II
• Occupation
• NAZI
• Paris

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. <i>Suite Fran§aise</i> tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. 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 Ir¨ne N©mirovsky began working on <i>Suite Fran§aise</i>, 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.