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| Suite Francaise | 
 enlarge | Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Creator: Sandra Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  43 reviews
Sales Rank: 805
Media: Paperback
Edition: New title
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0099488787
EAN: 9780099488781
ASIN: 0099488787
Publication Date: September 30, 2006
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| Customer Reviews: Read 38 more reviews...
 Compelling....though provoking August 31, 2008
This book really surprised me. I read it after I'd read an article about the author in a newspaper, not really thinking it was my thing, but it was! I have no idea how much of the story (fact or fiction) was lost in translation to english, but what you get is interesting, insightful, full of emotion (no drivel though!!), undoubtedly bias and makes you think about the events of war in far more depth then you have probably ever done before. I would give the second part of the book 5/5, but found the first part not quite as engaging, nontheless it is an absolute must read and I'm sure its one of those books that I will pick up and find something new in again and again.
 Disorganised and overrated! April 22, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was very disappointed by this book. I found it very hard to get in to. There are far too many characters and scenarios and i found it hard to develop any empathy with the characters. Eventually gave up half way through Dolce and skipped to the letters at the back!
 Nice cover, disappointing contents April 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was very keen to read this book after hearing so many great reviews of it - have kept trying to progress with it but have finally admitted defeat. Just dull, with characters who made zero impact on me.
 Disappointed March 16, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I really wanted to love Suite Francaise but I just didn't. My mistake was that I tried to read it as a polished novel but found it disjointed and frustrating as such. My friend looked at it as a piece of social history and thoroughly enjoyed it. I would recommend this approach to future readers.
For me, the most fascinating part of the book is "the preface to the French edition". It covers Irene Nemirovsky's intriguing life(I've added her autobiography le Vin de Solitude to my TBR list) and the touching events of how the novel came into being. Also poignant are the letters that her husband, Michel Epstein, wrote to try and secure her release after she was arrested and sent to Auschwitz where she would eventually die.
 Real time description of life in France during the occupation February 13, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although this is a work of fiction Irene Nemirovsky was there as these events were unfolding and it's amazing, considering what eventually happened to her and her family, how generous she was able to be when writing about the Occuping Forces in this book by concentrating on the humane and the every day. The first part deals with the evacuation of Paris before the Nazis reach it. The second part tells of life as it was in a traditional French village occupied by the Germans later. When you read the appendices it's obvious this was planned as a much bigger oeuvre which tragically was never completed as she was imprisoned and died in camp.
All human characteristics are shown - many not flattering - cowardice, selfishness, prejudice, self interest and the class system all feature. There are some redeeming characters - one of these a German officer.
A very humane and compassionate book which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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