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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Suite Francaise (A Novel)by: Irene Nemirovsky  List Price: $39.95 Amazon.com's Price: $26.37 You Save: $13.58 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 843.912 EAN: 9781598870206 Edition: Unabridged Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 1598870203 Label: Highbridge Audio Manufacturer: Highbridge Audio Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 795 Publication Date: April 06, 2006 Publisher: Highbridge Audio Studio: Highbridge Audio Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Irène Némirovsky was arrested soon after completing the second part of Suite Française. Ten days later, on August 17, 1942, she died of typhus in Auschwitz- Birkenau. Her husband, Michel, perished in a gas chamber on November 6. Their daughters, Denise and Elizabeth, survived, hidden in safe houses and convents, carrying a suitcase packed with clothes, photographs, and their mother’s manuscript written in tiny letters to save paper. For years, both girls thought it was a journal and couldn’t bear to read it. Then, in the late 1980s, Denise began transcribing it with the help of a magnifying glass. Part One, "A Storm in June," is set in the chaos and mayhem of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. Part Two, "Dolce," opens in the provincial town of Bussy during the first influx of German soldiers. Each part features a rich cast of characters— people who never should have met, but come to form ambiguous relationships as they are forced to endure circumstances beyond their control. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - HauntingYes, it is obvious that it hasn't been edited but that doesn't detract from the beauty. Language is wound like ribbons, outlining the pictures of the characters, framing them and revealing them slowly. The desperation, fear and transient nature of the characters fall off the page, revealing a landscape littered with the machinations of war. Characters come alive in mere fragments of sentences, the nature of war evident on every page, filling the reader with an intense feeling of dread ... Read More Rating:  - Expected to love it, gave up on it.I had heard such great things about this book, so was really looking forward to reading it. I read to chapter 22, then quit. I thought it was extremely boring and very slow moving. I agree with some of the other reviewers that the author's situation and the subsequent discovery of her manuscript was so intriguing, I expected the book to be the same, but I was very disappointed. Rating:  - Unfinished masterpieceSuite Francaise sat on my permanent "mountain" of waiting-to-be-read books for about a year, unopened. Had I only known... The Holocaust claimed the lives of innumerable people. Irene Nemirovsky was among them. She died at Auschwitz a year after writing the first two novels (out of intended five) belonging to Suite Francaise. "Storm in June" and "Dolce" were re-discovered decades after she died and subsequently published, adding a further and unusual insight to the tragedy of war. ... Read More Rating: - Wanted more and more!! .such a tragedy she is gone... A book like this only comes around once in a while and touched me greatly and even though the author died tragically at Auschwitz in 1942 she will be in my memory forever.. Thank god her daughter got this book published. I fell in love with all the characters who were written so vividly I thought I was there...So descriptive, with both humor and sadness. The next part "Captive" was not yet written only in bits and pieces before her death. I cried on the last two pages regarding her life and death. ... Read More Rating: - Subtle, Powerful, Unfinished - An Astonishing SurvivalPerhaps the miracle of this manuscript is that it survived the internment and death of its author and all the mischances of World War II to achieve publication. Even in its unfinished condition (only two sections out of the author's intended three or four), this novel paints an unforgettable portrait of France in defeat. The first section, Storm in June, follows a number of people who flee Paris ahead of the German Army. The author hopscotches from character to character, trying to show ... Read More 
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