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Titre :
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Suite française
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Auteurs :
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Irène Némirovsky, Auteur ;
Sandra Smith, Traducteur
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Type de document :
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texte imprimé
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Editeur :
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London : Vintage Books, 2006
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ISBN/ISSN/EAN :
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978-0-09-950786-4
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Format :
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1 vol. (513 p.) / couv. ill. / 18 cm
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Langues originales:
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Français
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Index. décimale :
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843.9 (Fiction de langue française - XXè siècle)
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Résumé :
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The story around Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Française is as at least as powerful as the story inside this highly praised French novel. Irene Nemirovsky was a successful and very popular novelist of Jewish descent who had immigrated to France before World War II. As Hitler's armies descended upon France in 1940, Nemirovsky hid in the countryside and wrote Suite Française to help calm her nerves. The novel is actually the combination of two short novellas and was supposed to be extended by three additional sections, which the author had outlined but never completed. The first section, called "Storm in June," tells the story of the panicked French citizens who poured out of France's largest cities into the countryside as they tried to escape from the German bombs. The result for many was disaster. People were killed along the way as the lines of refugees became easy targets for the German aircraft. Many of those who were not killed by bombs faced severe hunger as the crowds swamped food and other supplies in the small villages.
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