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Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Hardcover)
This is a used hardback book with dust jacket in very good condition!
Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books
Condition:
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition.
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Hardcover Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
ISBN-10: 1400044731 Edition Description: Translation
ISBN-13: 9781400044733 Subject: --
Publication Year: 2006 Topic: --
Special Attributes: -- Language: English
Detailed item info
Synopsis
This remarkable bestseller, already hailed as one of the great works of French literature in the 20th century, actually consists of three books: two novellas, and the non-fiction account of their creation and improbable survival. In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky, a Jewish writer, and her husband joined their children in a French village to escape from the German occupation of Paris. By July 1942, she was arrested by French police and sent to Auschwitz; she was dead by August. In that single year, Nemirovsky accomplished a nearly impossible feat: at breakneck speed she penned two novellas about the terrible events still unfolding in France. Her two children survived the war by hiding in attics and basements, and they carried their mother's manuscript with them. It was not until the late 1990s that the eldest daughter, now in her 70s, finally read the crumbling notes and realized that they were not merely a diary, but two fully formed works of fiction, the earliest literature ever written about World War II--written while events were actually happening. The first, STORM IN JUNE is a cacophonous, frightening, and frequently comic account of the mass exodus from Paris in 1940; the second, DOLCE, tells the story of a French village living uneasily under German occupation. It's a miracle is that these novellas exist at all, but the greater miracle is that, amidst upheaval and danger, Nemirovsky somehow created work of such insight, richness, menace, and beauty.
Size
Length: 395 pages
Height: 9.8 in.
Width: 6.8 in.
Thickness: 1.5 in.
Weight: 28 oz.
Publisher's Note
Published more than sixty years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"A Storm in June, " set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied provincial village rife with jealousy, resentment, resistance, and collaboration. 75,000 first printing.
Industry reviews
"[Nemirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most human and incisive fiction that [World War II] has produced."
(04/09/2006)
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This is a used hardback book with dust jacket in very good condition!
Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books
Condition:
Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition.
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Format: Hardcover Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
ISBN-10: 1400044731 Edition Description: Translation
ISBN-13: 9781400044733 Subject: --
Publication Year: 2006 Topic: --
Special Attributes: -- Language: English
Detailed item info
Synopsis
This remarkable bestseller, already hailed as one of the great works of French literature in the 20th century, actually consists of three books: two novellas, and the non-fiction account of their creation and improbable survival. In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky, a Jewish writer, and her husband joined their children in a French village to escape from the German occupation of Paris. By July 1942, she was arrested by French police and sent to Auschwitz; she was dead by August. In that single year, Nemirovsky accomplished a nearly impossible feat: at breakneck speed she penned two novellas about the terrible events still unfolding in France. Her two children survived the war by hiding in attics and basements, and they carried their mother's manuscript with them. It was not until the late 1990s that the eldest daughter, now in her 70s, finally read the crumbling notes and realized that they were not merely a diary, but two fully formed works of fiction, the earliest literature ever written about World War II--written while events were actually happening. The first, STORM IN JUNE is a cacophonous, frightening, and frequently comic account of the mass exodus from Paris in 1940; the second, DOLCE, tells the story of a French village living uneasily under German occupation. It's a miracle is that these novellas exist at all, but the greater miracle is that, amidst upheaval and danger, Nemirovsky somehow created work of such insight, richness, menace, and beauty.
Size
Length: 395 pages
Height: 9.8 in.
Width: 6.8 in.
Thickness: 1.5 in.
Weight: 28 oz.
Publisher's Note
Published more than sixty years following the author's death at Auschwitz, a remarkable story of life under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"A Storm in June, " set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied provincial village rife with jealousy, resentment, resistance, and collaboration. 75,000 first printing.
Industry reviews
"[Nemirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most human and incisive fiction that [World War II] has produced."
(04/09/2006)
Portions of this page Copyright 1995 - 2011 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.
=======================================================================
All my items are sold as-is. Please ask questions. I answer all inquiries!
I give shipping discounts for multiple purchases made at the same time.
Shipping costs based on US destinations, and include a small amount for packaging materials. Please email me for non-US shipping cost.
