I just finished Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. What makes this book so compelling is the story behind the story. Irene Nemirovsky was a published French author before World War II. A Jewish immigrant from Russia, Nemirovsky had a plan of creating 5 mini novels to form a suite of stories about ...
Lovely and deep and without mercy. Irene Nemirovsky was taken and sent to the death camps in July 1942 because she was Jewish. She was a published and known author, mother of two daughters, married and while her world was crashing down on her again after living through the Russian Revolution she kep...
What an interesting and perplexing read! I had heard about the now legendary tale of how the book came to be published. I cozied up to read what I thought was a heart-breaking story of a poor Jewish woman's harrowing account of WWII and her ultimate demise in a concentration camp.Storm in June:I tru...
The story behind this book is more amazing than the book itself. The woman who wrote it died in the second world war and her daughter only discovered the complete thing in the last few years. Crazy, I know! The book itself is a bit hard to get into, but it is very well written and i really enjoyed i...
I thought this was a good book with interesting characters and set in a tumultuous, terrible time, but I don't think it was a GREAT book. I think it's the back story that gives it a lot of its allure.
I'm floating from my reading this week. The Accidental was so magnificent that I'd read it in little bites, holding off finishing it as long as I could. Then Suite Francaise arrived on my doorstep and it, too, was so excellent I could barely believe it. This week it has felt like Harrison Ford and S...
Book Description (from Amazon.com)Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mothe...
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