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Described by critics as "a piercing record of time"
and "a witness to life as it was in wartime," Suite
Francaise is the selection of the Friends' Reading Group
which will meet on April 8 at 2pm at the Oakville Branch of the
Watertown Library.
Acclaimed in France and the United Kingdom, Suite Francaise
contains two novellas about WorId War II France: "Storm in
June" which tells of the exodus from Paris on the eve of
its invasion by the Germans and "Dolce" which concerns
itself with the daily details of an occupied village. The tenderness
of the story of a young French woman and the German soldier occupying
her home and the terror of war make the reader a witness to life
as it was in wartime France.
Published 64 years after the death of the author Irene Nemirovsky
in Auschwitz in 1942, this novel, translated by Sandra Smith,
is an extraordinary tale of life under Nazi occupation. Any reader
will question how heishe would behave in such a perilous situation.
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