– "Suite Francaise" består egentlig av to bøker gitt ut i ett bind. Det skulle vært tre, men Irène Nemirowsky kom aldri lenger enn til notatstadiet med den siste boka. Hun ble deportert fordi hun var jøde, og døde i Auschwitz i 1942. "Suite Francaise" er det siste manuskriptet hun arbeidet med, i et Frankrike hvor okkupasjonsmakten gjorde livet stadig vanskeligere for jødene. Hennes egen situasjon ble vanskeligere uke for uke, måned for måned, likevel er ikke romanen gjennomsyret av håpløshet eller hat. Tvert imot. Romanen er levende og vakker, hun beskriver menneskene og livene de lever på flukt og under okkupasjon med innsikt, varme og en forfriskende dose sarkasme. Menneskene hun beskriver blir med leseren et stykke på veien også når boka er lukket for siste gang. Forlaget har laget et tillegg etter at det andre og siste bindet er avsluttet. Der får leseren Nemirowskys egne notater og brev, et innblikk i innsatsen vennene hennes gjorde for å forsøke å redde henne, og ikke minst presenteres historien om døtrenes liv etter krigen. Dette er, i all sin brutale ekthet, like bevegende lesing som romanen. I sin helhet er "Suite Francaise" ei bok som berører og maner til refleksjon. Jeg anbefaler den helhjerta.
Suite Francaise
«A book of exceptional literary quality, it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank»
Times Literary Supplement
**AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S BOOK CLUB, THE READING ROOM**
'A masterpiece' The Sunday Times
In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Némirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Française, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.
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**AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S BOOK CLUB, THE READING ROOM**
'A masterpiece' The Sunday Times
In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Némirovsky's death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day, sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her planned novel sequence, Suite Française, would be rediscovered and hailed as a masterpiece.
Set during the year that France fell to the Nazis, Suite Française falls into two parts. The first is a brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Suite Française is a novel that teems with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However, amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 416
- ISBN
- 9780099488781
- Utgivelsesår
- 2007
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Runner-up for Reading Group Book of the Year 2007. Short-listed for Independent Booksellers' Week Book of the Year Award: Adults' Book of the Year 2007 and British Book Awards: Book of the Year 2007.
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«A book of exceptional literary quality, it has the kind of intimacy found in the diary of Anne Frank»
Times Literary Supplement
«What is to me most remarkable is the degree to which Nemirovsky, writing so close to the event, has nevertheless distilled it to extract the significance of each moment and episode. it is literature, not journalism... Her novel is in the classic French tradition, intelligent and sensuous»
Scotsman
«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
«Suite Francaise is the most powerful account of that time and place many of us have ever read...this extraordinary woman's work is receiving the celebration it deserves. I defy anyone to read it without tears of admiration and pity for its author»
Max Hastings, Daily Mail
«A beautifully observed, devastating critique of French society on the brink of war»
Catherine Taylor, i