Perfect 1st/1st example from 2006, in similar dustjacket. Unread.
In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Nemirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Francaise, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.
Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Francaise falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Francaise is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.
Translated from the French by Sandra Smith. First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
First English language edition of this work, first impression. Containing two of a planned sequence of five novels by Irene Nemirovsky. These were completed in 1942 before the author was arrested as a Jew and detained first at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz, where she was murdered as a victim of the Holocaust.
The notebooks were preserved by her daughters and published in a single volume in the original French in 2004.
