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Suite française / Irène Némirovsky ; translated by Sandra Smith.

By: Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942Contributor(s): Smith, Sandra, 1949-Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : Vintage International, 2007. Edition: 1st Vintage International ed., May 2007Description: 431 pages : map ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9782070336760; 1400096278Uniform titles: Suite française. English Subject(s): Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942 -- Correspondence | Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942 | German Occupation of France (1940-1945) | World War (1939-1945) | 1939-1945 | World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction | World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction | Historical fiction | France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction | France | France -- History -- 1940-1945, German occupation -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Fiction. | History. | Records and correspondence. | Historical fiction.DDC classification: 843/.912 LOC classification: PQ2627.E4 | S8513 2007NLM classification: FictionOther classification: FIC019000 | FIC014000 | I565.45
Contents:
Storm in June -- Dolce -- Irène Némirovsky's handwritten notes on the situation in France and her plans for Suite Française, taken from her notebooks -- Correspondence 1936-1945 -- Preface to the French edition.
Production credits: Translated by Sandra Smith.Summary: "Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, this books 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"-- Back cover.
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Storm in June -- Dolce -- Irène Némirovsky's handwritten notes on the situation in France and her plans for Suite Française, taken from her notebooks -- Correspondence 1936-1945 -- Preface to the French edition.

Translated by Sandra Smith.

"Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, this books 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"-- Back cover.

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