Suite Francaise

Synopsis

**as featured in hrh the duchess of cornwall's book club, the reading room**'a masterpiece' the sunday timesin 1941, irène némirovsky 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. Némirovsky'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 française, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.