by Irène Némirovsky · La Magrana · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478714971
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Suite Française is a novel by Irène Némirovsky that describes the exodus of many French people in June 1940, during World War II. The story narrates the chaos and disorganization that affected families of all social classes. The author does not skimp on details about the acts of cowardice and the glimmers of solidarity that arose in the midst of despair. As the enemy occupies the country, a town called Bussy is forced to welcome German troops, which causes social tensions and frustrations among its 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.
