Suite Française

Състояние: Много добро
Забележка: Внимателно използвана книга, леко захабен външен вид.
Издателство: Vintage
Град на издаване: London
Преводач: Sandra Smith
Наличност: singular
Ширина (мм): 130
Височина (мм): 200
Дебелина (мм): 26
Корици: Меки

‘An irresistible work. Suite Frangaise clutches at the heart’
THE TIMES

‘Outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book’
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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France, 1940. Lucile Angellier’s husband has been captured as a prisoner-of-war, and all she can do is wait for him - and tend to the household controlled by her domineering mother-in-law. Their small village is soon occupied by a regiment of German soldiers, forcing the locals to coexist with an invading Nazi force. Lieutenant Bruno von Falk takes up lodgings with the Angellier women, and Lucile struggles with her growing feelings for the officer - soon a powerful love draws them together, and they too fall victim to the tragedy of war.

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Irène Némirovsky began writing Suite Frangaise in 1940, but her death in Auschwitz prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the novel would be discovered by her daughter and hailed worldwide as a masterpiece.

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. After the 1917 Russian Revolution, her family fled, eventually settling in 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 Issyl’Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Frangaise. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Sandra Smith has translated twelve novels by Irène Némirovsky as well as a new translation of Camus’ The Outsider. Némirovsky’s Suite Frangaise won her the French American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Prize and The PEN Translation Prize. Five of her translations have been adapted as radio plays and broadcast on the BBC. Suite Frangaise is the first to become a film.