Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #897 in Books
• Published on: 2007-02-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Woman & Home
"Be enthralled by Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky. A lost
masterpieces set in wartime France. Vivid and compelling"

Sunday Telegraph, rev'd by Katie Owen
"A powerful work, satirical yet humane, with a poignant awareness
of transient happiness"

Independent
`This miracle of a novel plucks tenderness from the heart of
tragedy.'

Customer Reviews

Disorganised and overrated!
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
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
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.