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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Although this book is not the finished novel its author projected, the sections that are here are compelling, the characters subtlely portrayed, and the various urban and rural areas of France during World War II evoked vividly. We will never know what we would have had had Nemirovsky lived to finish this book, but the pieces we do have are well worth our attention.. (  ) ffortsa | Dec 20, 2009 |  It is a disservice to Irene Nemirovsky to write "A novel" beneath the title Suite Francaise. What this is, is a beautiful fragment of a novel that will never be published because of tragedy. To call it a novel is inviting people to judge it as a complete story, but unfortunately Ms. Nemirovsky was not able to finish this novel because of her murder during the Holocaust. If we are going to go digging into author's lives and find fragments of their writing that were not approved for public consumption by the author, we must not try and present it as the finished project. As anyone who writes knows, a rough draft and a final novel can be two different stories entirely. ( ) Artiluna | Dec 15, 2009 | A significant novel. Suite Francaise comprises the first two parts of an envisaged five part work tracing the experience of occupied France during the Second World War. The continuities between the two parts that were completed are quite slight. The first part introduces us to a number of very different families and characters, all fleeing Paris as the invaders approached, with only a few them being referred to in the second part, and even then only in passing. Those who like to find out what happen to characters could find it a little frustrating. Those who like to meditate on what happens to people caught up in war will find much to mull over. (  ) dsc73277 | Dec 15, 2009 | I totally loved this book. You really have to read all the appendices afterwards to get the entire picture of what her idea for the story was and what actually happened to the author. Incredible and so moving! (  ) mmillet | Dec 14, 2009 | This is a very good depiction of a range of French people of different origins firstly fleeing from the Nazis as they approach Paris, and later learning to live under their rule. The depictions of the compromises people go through and the guilt at feeling friendly towards individual German soldiers is well described, particularly remarkable considering the author being Jewish and therefore having an even stronger reason for opposing the invaders tooth and nail. The reproductions of the letters of the author's husband as he frantically tries to track her down after her arrest and before his own arrest and deportation to Auschwitz are very poignant. ( ) john257hopper | Nov 29, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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