Suite francaise

Suite française by Irène Némirovsky


By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française she was 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. When she was arrested, she had completed two parts of the epic, the handwritten manuscripts of which were hidden in a suitcase that her daughters would take with them into hiding...















André Sabatier
asked
beautiful
bed
Benoît
boy
Cécile
Charlie
Corbin
Corte
cry
dark
David Golder
door
dress
Esménard
everything
eyes
face
feel
felt
Florence
flowers
France
French
Gabriel
garden
German
girls
hands
happy
head
hear
heard
heart
Hubert
husband
Irène Némirovsky
Issy-l'Évêque
Jean-Marie
Jeanne
July
knew
ladies
Langelet
laugh
leave
let
listen
live
Loiret
looked
Lucile
Madame Angellier
Madame Péricand
Madeleine
Marthe
Maurice Michaud
Michel Epstein
Mme
Monsieur Péricand
Montmort
mother
murmured
never
night
Nîmes
officer
Oh
pale
Paray-le-Monial
Paris
Paul Morand
petrol
Philippe
Pithiviers
prisoner
prisoner of war
realised
refugees
replied
road
saw
say
seemed
shouted
sighed
silent
sleep
smiled
soldiers
someone
sound
stopped
suddenly
Suite Française
talking
tell
there's
things
thought
tomorrow
took
trees
Vichy France
village
Viscountess
voice
waiting
walked
whispered
wife
window
woman
women
Yes
young