It was a few years ago that I read this book and I am inspired to try and add a few thoughts as this book has been chosen by the Bright Young Things group as their Fiction read for March 2013. I clearly recall how much I enjoyed the first part of the book which details different groups fleeing from...
First of all, there's a blurb on the back saying that this book "has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank," and that irritates me, because it's obvious that this comparison is only being made because both authors died in concentration camps. Can we use the eventual fate of an author...
Beautifully written. It doesn't look a bit like the partially unchecked first draft it was.But this is probably due to the perfectionism involved in the writing technique of Irène Némirovsky. I disagree with those who found the main characters here slightly stereotyped.Not even Albert - the cat - ha...
5 stars = A+. An unfinished masterpiece, a snapshot in time of German-occupied France in World War II. I haven't read a book this powerful or engrossing in a very long time. The book is comprised of two novella-length stories, which are:1.) 'Storm in June': follows several Parisians as they flee the...
Némirovsky was a Russian Jew who emigrated as a child to France. There, she became a popular and successful writer, converted to Roman Catholicism, became an anti-semite who associated with right-wing (fascist) writers and editors, but who by 1942 was deported to Auschwitz and gassed. Her husband wa...
The story of how this book was found is incredible...so is the book. This book takes place during the Nazi occupation of France. The first part is about the taking of Paris and the second of the occupation of a rural French village by German soldiers.What is amazing about this book is how beautiful...
I've been meaning to read this for years, but have never made the time. When the English translation first came out I was captivated by the cover, an almost too-perfect classic photograph, distinctly French and romantic.'Suite Française' is not a love story, though it might have turned into one if i...
The contents of this book naturally get a bit overshadowed by the dramatic circumstances under which it was written and published. However, I will write about what I thought of it as a novel as well as a chronicle of the times it was written in. The first part of the novel, in which various characte...
The fictional account of life in France before and during the German occupation of WWII. This book was written by a Jewish woman who did not finish the manuscript before she was taken away to a concentration camp. Based on historical events, the stories involve Parisians and rural French citizens ...
European History Group May read.Part One - Storm in June1 - War: Hot, thought the ParisiansThis reads like Company of Liars where various characters were thrown together for safety to keep ahead of the plague. Could even equate to The Canterbury Tales but then the travelers were together with an end...
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