by Irène Némirovsky · SALAMANDRA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498383386
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«Suite francesa» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Salamandra in paperback (544 pages, in Spanish).
Set during the Second World War, the novel opens with the exodus of thousands of Parisians as the Germans approach. In occupied France, rejection of the invader, clandestine love affairs and collaboration with power coexist, in a portrait of the bourgeoisie with a realist tone and autobiographical accent.
Posthumous and unfinished work: the author conceived five parts and wrote only two. It was published in 2004 and won the Renaudot Prize, awarded for the first time to a deceased author.
Suitable for readers of historical fiction and Second World War classics, as well as reading groups; recommended for ages 16 and up.
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.
