Suite française a novel Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New York Vintage International 2007Edition: 1st Vintage International edition May 2007Description: 431 pages map 20 cmContent type:- Text
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- Band
- 9781400096275
- 1400096278
- Némirovsky, Irène 1903-1942 -- Correspondence
- Némirovsky, Irène
- World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945 ; France ; Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Personal correspondence
- Historical fiction
- France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 -- Fiction
- France
- France ; History ; 1940-1945, German occupation ; Fiction
- Paris
- Besetzung
- Bevölkerung
- Flucht
- Geschichte 1940
- 843/.912
- PQ2627.E4
- Fiction
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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 |
Includes bibliographical references
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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