Suite Française

By Irène Némirovsky

The belated discovery of this book is almost as extraordinary as the content within it. A remarkable story full of love, pain and truth.
~ Her Majesty Queen Camilla
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Publish Date: 2004

Set in 1940, the year France fell to Nazi occupation, Suite Francaise tells two stories, that of a group of Parisians fleeing the invasion and that of a small rural community under German occupation. But even in dire circumstances, Némirovsky sheds light on the ways in which hope and love can be found in surprising places.

 

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