Suite Francaise

Jewish Literature & Fiction

Author: Irène Némirovsky

The first two stories of a masterwork once thought lost, written by a pre-WWII bestselling author who was deported to Auschwitz and died before her work could be completed.By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer liv….Read More

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Suite Francaise

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