{"product_id":"9780676977714","title":"Suite Francaise","description":"By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would  become \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—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: a month later she was dead at the age of  thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where  she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude  the Nazis\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eshe’d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she  herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts  of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that  her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four  years later, at long last, we can read Némirovsky’s literary masterpiece \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first  part, “A Storm in June,” opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris  on the eve of the Nazi invasion during which several families and individuals are  thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but  the harsh demands of survival—some trying to maintain lives of privilege, others  struggling simply to preserve their lives—but soon, all together, they will be forced  to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation  of the world they know. In the second part, “Dolce,” we enter the increasingly complex  life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers  billeted among them, the villagers—from aristocrats to shopkeepers to peasants—cope  as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community  is transformed by these acts, the lives of these these men and women reveal nothing  less than the very essence of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e is a singularly piercing  evocation—at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironic—of  life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.","brand":"Irene Nemirovsky","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2007-04-10","offer_id":47309522632959,"sku":"9780676977714","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_32227486-cca6-4b74-b564-304c6f1a4d99.jpg?v=1759005537","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780676977714","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}