Suite Fran?aise is an extraordinary novel of life under Nazi
occupation - recently discovered and published 64 years after the
author's death in Auschwitz. In the early 1940s, Ir?ne N?mirovsky
was a successful writer living in Paris. But she was also Jewish,
and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Her two
small daughters, aged 5 and 13, escaped, carrying with them, in a
small suitcase, the manuscript - one of the great first-hand
novelistic accounts of a way of life unravelling. Part One, "A
Storm in June," is set in the chaos of the tumultuous exodus from
Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. As the German army
approaches, Parisians seize what belongings they can and flee the
city, the wealthy and the poor alike searching for means to escape.
Thrown together under circumstances beyond their control, a group
of families and individuals with nothing in common but the harsh
demands of survival find themselves facing the annihilation of
their world, and human natu
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