A beautiful and unusual read

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	• Suite Francaise Irene Nemirovsky Vintage, 2007 - 448 pages average customer review:based on 350 reviews view larger image
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A beautiful and unusual read

Nemirovsky's has a wonderful, yet urgent flow to her storytelling; it was difficult to put the book down. I loved her sense of irony and the unexpected twists of fate that her characters take. The characters are wonderful and not stereotypical. She takes a risk by not characterizing all of the German soldiers as "evil". Similarly, not all of the French are "good". It helps to know the story of the autor and to know that this is two books cobbled together because it helps make sense of the storylines. A superb book.

Lovely

This is a really lovely book. dipicting many souls during the nazi occupation of Paris. It a side of history we dont see. I think because it has not been polished or reflected on. The writer wrote all of this while it was happening. Very nice work and is sure to be as important to history as the diary of Anne Frank.

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Excellent book

Just today did I finish this book. It is not a fast moving book. It was not full of action and intrigue, but I enjoyed this book for what it was. I did not know much about the German occupation of France and appreciated what I learned. Later I learned that the author reread Tolstoy while working on this book to learn from his style of writing. Maybe that is why I liked this book as "Anna Karenina" is one of my all time favorite books.
I would recommend this book.

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Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy?in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.

When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

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