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Suite Francaise
Lovely and deep and without mercy. Irene Nemirovsky was taken and sent to the death camps in July 1942 because she was Jewish. She was a published and known author, mother of two daughters, married and while her world was crashing down on her again after living through the Russian Revolution she kept on writing during the days and months of 1940 and 1941. What she wrote is this magnificent book about how people live, compromise, put things away in their minds in order to survive. The pettiness, the courage and the desperation of individuals during the beginning of the occupation in France.Suite Française is two novellas one set during the first days of the occupation and the second during the first months of it in this regional village where class is everything and people are just waiting for things to end, one way or the other. It's a cruel and harsh portrait of humanity. A vivid image of how people survive. The lies they tell themselves.
