Irene Nemirovsky

In 1941, Irene Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that sixty-five years later, SUITE FRANÇAISE...

Nemirovsky brings the characters to life with a light touch....

In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that, sixty-five years later, Suite Francaise...

Suite Franaise is both a brilliant novel of wartime and an extraordinary historical document. An unmatched evocation of the exodus from Paris after the German invasion of 1940, and of life under the Nazi occupation, it was written by the esteemed French novelist Irne Nmirovsky as events unfolded around her. This haunting masterpiece has been hailed...

In 1929, 26-year-old Irne Nmirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her first novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Franaise and her death at Auschwitz. Yet the clues are there in this astonishingly mature story of an elderly Jewish...

A new treasure unearthed by Nmirovskys biographers: another never-before-published novel from the author of the #1 bestselling Suite Franaise.This perfect gem of a novel was discovered only recently in separate archive files. A few pages were in the famous suitcase that Irne Nmirovskys daughters saved, but the balance had been deposited with a very...