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Suite Francaise
- Narrated by: Daniel Oreskes, Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
By the early 1940s, 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 living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of 39. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France - where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis - she'd begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she herself would become a victim. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding and eventually into freedom. Sixty-four years later, at long last, we can read and hear Némirovsky's literary masterpiece.
The first part, "A Storm in June," opens in the chaos of the massive 1940 exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion, during which several families and individuals are thrown together under circumstances beyond their control. They share nothing but the harsh demands of survival, but soon, all together, they will be forced to face the awful exigencies of physical and emotional displacement, and the annihilation of the world they know. In the second part, "Dolce," we enter the increasingly complex life of a German-occupied provincial village. Coexisting uneasily with the soldiers billeted among them, the villagers cope as best they can. Some choose resistance, others collaboration, and as their community is transformed by these acts, their lives reveal nothing less than the very essence of humanity.
Suite Française is a singularly piercing evocation - at once subtle and severe, deeply compassionate and fiercely ironic - of life and death in occupied France, and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art.
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- Erin
- 03-23-15
One word: Epic
This book exceeded all expectations. You will not be disappointed with this title. Everyone should experience this book for a multitude of reasons. This is one of the best books I have ever encountered.
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- Tom Barreiros
- 07-10-15
suite francaise
very good book. a really good book about about a dark time in human history.
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- Susan
- 01-08-20
Exquisite writing!
The best book I have ever read about the French experience in the early days of World War II. Beautifully written.
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- irene green
- 01-01-20
Breathtaking prose
Inspiring story of respect in adverse circumstances. We are inclined to repudiate enemies, but maybe by erasing the enemies lines we could find, with time and effort, a place of mutual understanding, and just maybe we could transport into this place a new human experience.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-27-19
great listen
This was a very intricately woven drama. The narrators were excellent. What a shame that Nemirovsky didn't live to finish it -- we are left to eternally wonder what happens to these characters next.
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- D. Kim Hamblin, PhD
- 10-30-21
A fragment of a story
If I had known this was the first of what was intended to be a 5 book series of which only 2 were completed, I would not have invested 13 hours in listening to it. I kept hoping it would come to some kind of conclusion. The writing was at times beautiful and evocative and other times overly detailed. Why so much devoted to a cat killing and eating a bird. Many of the characters were unbelievably self centered and arrogant, so few with any redeeming features. In the end, I didn’t like any of them. Not a kind portrayal of the French. I ordinarily only write reviews when I really like a book, but I couldn’t let this one slip by without a word of comment.
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- Scot Potts
- 11-12-19
Beautiful
Irene Nemirovsky wrote these two closely observed novels about the chaos which was the evacuation of Paris before the Nazi occupation of the city and about the German occupation of a small French village. I say closely observed because she includes a multitude of small details which really allow one to enter the smells and sights of France 80 years ago. Her portrayal of the people and the gardens, the roadsides and the rooms, the scent of lime flowers as the German soldiers march out of the village, the strawberries as they enter the village, they are all true to life and bring the reader directly into Paris, the roadsides along the evacuation, and the village. Her observations of human nature are timeless. Her sympathetic portrayal of the occupying German soldiers is all the more poignant and moving as her death in a German concentration camp before she could complete the last three books planned in her suite hangs in the background of one’s reading of this book. The narration of both books is fantastic.
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- Somesie
- 05-14-22
Could not finish…
I don’t understand the reviews for this one, at all. I found it boring and dry and couldn’t connect with any of the characters. I’ve finally given up, with seven hours remaining. Other than…I have been using it to fall asleep at night. Bleh.
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- S. Johnson
- 03-24-22
tough time
tough time to here another war time story with what is going on around us
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- Annie Smart
- 03-21-22
A classic
Beautifully written, clearly authentic, and profound. It was a rare treat.
I also learned to what degree the French people generally considered the UK (itself being pummeled to a pulp) to be untrustworthy, shambolic and unimportant ('Who cares who wins this war, the Germans or the Brits?'). Given that the UK, with America, worked tirelessly to help liberate France, the historical antipathy between the 2 countries was clearly rampant and entirely wrongheaded just 80 years ago. These French characters demonstrate every cliche as to their famous snobbery and complete inability to relate to anything non-French. What a naive culture, ripe for the picking, incapable of imagining what the Germans under Hitler were capable of, unless perhaps you were Jewish like the author. I imagine these potent themes would have been developed, even turned on their heads, in the planned later books.