Suite française a novel Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith

By:

Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942 [VerfasserIn]

Contributor(s):

Smith, Sandra [ÜbersetzerIn]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York Vintage International 2007Edition: 1st Vintage International edition May 2007Description: 431 pages map 20 cmContent type:

Text

Media type:

ohne Hilfsmittel zu benutzen

Carrier type:

Band

ISBN:

9781400096275
1400096278

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Fiktionale Darstellung

DDC classification:

843/.912

LOC classification:

PQ2627.E4

NLM classification:

Fiction

Translated by Sandra SmithSummary: 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.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"--

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
single unit book	HAC Library - Holdings of the American Academy in Berlin HAC – 1st floor – Library Room – Open Stacks	R (Reference collection)	R:PQ2627.E4 S8513 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		2023-4507

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Translated by Sandra Smith

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.

"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"--

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Suite française a novel Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith