Review
From the book
jacket: By the early l940s, when
Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began
working on what would become
Suite
Française—the first two parts of a
planned five-part novel—she was already
a highly successful writer living in
Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in
1942 she was arrested and deported to
Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at
the age of thirty-nine. Two years
earlier, living in a small village in
central France—where she, her husband,
and their two small daughters had fled
in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she'd
begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of
a human drama in which she herself would
become a victim....
Beyond the Book
Irène
Némirovsky
was born in Kiev
in 1903 into a
wealthy banking
family.
She emigrated to
France during
the Russian
Revolution and,
after attending
the Sorbonne,
began to write.
She achieved
success with her
first novel,
David Golder,
which was
published when
she was 26.
This was
followed by
The Ball,
The Flies of...
