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Irène Némirovsky 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, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.

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An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart -- Carmen Callil * The Times *
The work of a genuine artist -- Julian Barnes * Guardian *
Magnificent * The Times *

Suite Francaise

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    A Paperback / softback by Irène Némirovsky, Sandra Smith

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 1 February 2007
      ISBN-13 9780099488781
      978-0099488781
      ISBN-10 0099488787
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Irène Némirovsky 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, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.

      Trade Review
      A masterpiece * Sunday Times *
      Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth -- Anne Chisholm * Sunday Telegraph *
      An irresistible work. Suite Francaise clutches the heart -- Carmen Callil * The Times *
      The work of a genuine artist -- Julian Barnes * Guardian *
      Magnificent * The Times *

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