{"product_id":"suite-francaise-irene-nemirovsky","title":"Suite Francaise (Irène Némirovsky)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second world war classic of life under Nazi occupation. Némirovsky was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1941, Irène sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Némirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, \u003ci\u003eSuite Française, \u003c\/i\u003ewould be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet during the year that France fell to the Nazis, \u003ci\u003eSuite Française \u003c\/i\u003efalls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - six masterpieces of French fiction in collectable editions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece of French fiction' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of those rare books that demands to be read' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIrène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of \u003ci\u003eDavid Golder\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eAll Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves \u003c\/i\u003eand other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFire in the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.\nSandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irène Némirovsky available in English, a new translation of Camus's \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Inseparable \u003c\/i\u003eby Simone de Beauvoir (Ecco Press, USA), among many others. Her translation of Nemirovsky's \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e won the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of \u003ci\u003eBut You Did Not Come Back\u003c\/i\u003e by Marceline Loridan-Ivens won The National Jewish Book Award. She currently teaches at NYU.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 528 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63449782354269,"sku":"K096707349","price":10.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/230345-9670734900001A.jpg?v=1771213219","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/suite-francaise-irene-nemirovsky","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}