Suite Francaise

Ir?ne N?mirovsky,Irene Nemirovsky

ISBN 10: 0099598442 / ISBN 13: 9780099598442

Published by Vintage Publishing, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Suite Francaise
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099598442
• ISBN 13: 9780099598442
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1767775652.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 9742128
• Signed: 1/7/2026 8:47:32 AM
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Suite Francaise

About the Author

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a successful banking family. Trapped in Moscow by the Russian Revolution, she and her family fled first to a village in Finland, and eventually to France, where she attended the Sorbonne.

Irène Némirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.

When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L’Evêque. It was there that she secretly began writing Suite Française. Though her family had converted to Catholicism, she was arrested on 13 July, 1942, and interned in the concentration camp at Pithiviers. She died in Auschwitz in August of that year.
From the Hardcover edition.