by Irène Némirovsky · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412425383
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Suite française is a masterpiece that portrays a fundamental era of the 20th century: the German invasion of Paris, the flight of the inhabitants, the collapse of the prevailing social order, and the birth of a new era. With extraordinary prose, Irène Némirovsky describes the exodus that many French people endured in June 1940, capturing both acts of cowardice and sparks of solidarity in a population shattered by the enemy occupation. As the enemy takes possession of an inert country plunged into fear, the village of Bussy is forced to host German troops, leading to social tensions and frustration among the inhabitants.
Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française.
