Suite française

Irène Némirovsky died of typhus in Auschwitz in 1942. The book she left behind was preserved in manuscript form by her daughter and is the first two parts of an epic account of the fall of France and the start of the Nazi occupation. When it was finally published in France in 2004, Suite Française was ecstatically received by French critics, and reawakened the controversy around wartime collaboration.


Reviews:

'The road away from freedom' Carmel Callil Times 04/03/06
'The Secrets of the Notebook' Peter Kemp Times 05/03/06
'History as a novel : the novel as history' Tom Payne Daily Telegraph 19/03/06
Andrew Riemer Sydney Morning Herald 23/03/06
'Generosity in the Face of Death' Anne Chisolm Daily Telegraph 26/03/06
'A Personal History in the Making' Jane Stevenson Observer 26/03/06
'Love in the Ruins' Alica Kaplan The Nation 29/05/06
'Unfinished Symphony' Cathleen McGuigan Newsweek 13/07/06
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