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In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effect of this event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Ir� N�rovsky's heartbreaking novel. A tragic victim of the Nazi regime, N�rovsky left behind this masterpiece in which she conjures up a vivid cast of characters, thrown together in ways they never expected. Amidst the mess of defeat, true nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.

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'Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth' Daily Telegraph


In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effect of this event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Ir� N�rovsky's heartbreaking novel. A tragic victim of the Nazi regime, N�rovsky left behind this masterpiece in which she conjures up a vivid cast of characters, thrown together in ways they never expected. Amidst the mess of defeat, true nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.


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作者簡介：

Ir� N�rovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist . She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Ev�e (in German occupied territory). It was here that Ir� began writing Suite Fran�se. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Translated by Sandra Smith.