TheNovel

An extraordinary

bookL’Espresso, Italy

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Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truthSunday Telegraph

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remarkable…New York Times

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One of the greatest

novels of the 20th Century

Telegraph Magazine

The Times”

Suite Française clutches the heart, its warmth and intensity give as much pleasure as a work of overpowering genius

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A masterpiece ripped from oblivion

Le Monde

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Irène Némirovsky was born in kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker.In 1918 her family fled the russian revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal, The Couril of Affair, All Our Worldly Goods.During World War II, Irène Némirovsky was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and had to flee Paris with her husband Michel and her two small daughters.In July 1942, she was deported to Birkenau and died within a month.In October 1942, just before being arrested by the police of the French Vichy government, Michel epstein entrusted

his daughter Denise a large leatherbound notebook. Denise had often watched her mother writing - in tiny handwriting to save ink and paper - in the notebook. She took it as a memento of her mother. The suitcase accompanied Denise and her sister elisabeth from one precarious hiding place to another.After the war, they couldn’t bring themselves to read the notebook; it was too painful.Many years passed, and Denise and her sister agreed they should entrust their mother’s notebook to an organization dedicated to documenting memories of the war, in order to preserve it. Before giving it up, Denise decided to type it out. She began the long, difficult task of deciphering the minuscule handwriting.Soon, she discovered that these were not simply notes or a private diary, as she had thought, but a violent masterpiece, a fresco of extraordinary lucidity, a vivid snapshot of France and the French; here was the exodus from Paris; villages invaded by exhausted, hungry women and children battling to find a place to sleep, if only a chair in a country inn; cars piled high with furniture, and left abandoned in the roads; the rich trying to save their precious jewels; a German soldier falling in love with a French woman under the watchful eye of her mother-in-law…Denise epstein sent the manuscript to the publisher Denoël and this, sixty-four years after her mother’s death.”*

*part of the French preface by Myriam Anissimov

Prix renaudot 2004 - Premio Libro del Ano 2005 in Spain - nomination at the Borders

Book of the Year, category of the Galaxy British Book Awards in the Uk - Independent

Booksellers’ Book of the Year 2007 – Best Books of 2006 by Amazon USA…

The novel was an immediate success; it

has been published in 41 countries and more than 3 million

books have been sold worldwide.

SUITE FRANCAISE

byIrene Nemirovsky

38 languages and 41 countries

ALBANIAPublisher: DITURIATo be published

AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALANDSuite FrançaisePublisher: CHATTO & WINDUSRelease: February 2006Language: English

BRAZILSuite FrancesaPublisher: Companhia das LetrasRelease: 2006Language: Portuguese

BULGARIAPublisher: Lege ArtisLanguage: BulgarianRelease: 2009

CANADA (English-speaking)

Suite FrançaisePublisher: KnopfRelease: April 2006Language: English

CHINASuite FrançaisePublisher: Shanghai 99Reader CultureRelease: 2006Language: Chinese (simplified characters)

CROATIAFrancuska SuitaPublisher: Vukovic & RunjicRelease: 2006Language: Croatian

CZECH REPUBLICFrancouzska SuitaPublisher: PasekaRelease: 2011Language: Czech

DENMARKStorm i JuniPublisher: Tiderne SkifterRelease: 2006Language: Danish

ESTONIAPrantsuse SuitPublisher: Eesti EkspressRelease: 2012Language : Estonian

FINLANDRanskalainen SarjaPublisher: GummerusRelease: 2005Language : Finish

FRENCH SPEAKING EDITIONSSuite FrançaisePublisher:DenoëlLanguage: French

GERMANYSuite FrançaisePublisher: Knaus VerlagRelease: 2005Language: German

GREECEPublisher: PatakiRelease: 2005Language: Greek

HUNGARYSuite FrançaisePublisher: AeternitasRelease: 2006Language: Hungarian

INDONESIASuite FrançaisePublisher: HikmahRelease: June 2011Language: Indonesian

IRELANDSuite FrançaisePublisher: Chatto & WindusRelease: February 2006Language: English

ICELANDFronsk SvitaPublisher: JPV ForlagidRelease: October 2011Language: Icelandic

ISRAELPublisher: KeterRelease: 2005Language: Hebrew

ITALYSuite FrancesePublisher: Adelphi EdizioniRelease: October 2005Language: Italian

JAPANPublisher: Hakusui ShaRelease: 2012Language: Japanese

LEBANONPublisher: All PrintsRelease: August 2010Language: Arabic

LITHUANIAPrancuziska SiuitaPublisher: Baltos LankosRelease: 2010Language: Lithuanian

NETHERLANDSStorm in JuniPublisher: De GeusRelease: 2005Language: Dutch

NORWAYStorm i JuniPublisher: Arneberg ForlagRelease: 2006Language: Norwegian

POLANDFrancuska SuitaPublisher: AlbatrosRelease: April 2006Language: Polish

PORTUGAL

Suite FrancesaPublisher: Dom QuixoteRelease: October 2005Language: Portuguese

ROMANIASuita FancezaPublisher: Paralela 45Release: 2006Language: Romanian

RUSSIASuite FrançaisePublisher: TextRelease: 2006Language: Russian

SERBIA

Francuska SvitaPublisher: LagunaRelease: 2005Language: Serbian

SLOVAKIAPublisher: TatranRelease: to be published

SLOVENIAPublisher: Ucila International ZalozbaRelease: to be published

SOUTH AFRICASuite FrançaisePublisher: Chatto & WindusRelease: Feb. 2006Language: English

SOUTH KOREA

Publisher: Munhak Segye-SaRelease: 2005Language: Korean

SPAINIn CastilianSuite FrancesaPublisher: SalamandraRelease: 2005

In CatalanSuite FrancesaPublisher: RBA / La MagranaRelease: 2006

In BasqueSuite FrantsesaPublisher: AlberdaniaRelease: 2011

SOUTH AFRICASuite FrançaisePublisher: Chatto & WindusRelease: Feb. 2006Language: English

SWEDENStorm over FrankrikePublisher: Albert Bonniers ForlagRelease: 2006Language: Swedish

TAIWANPublisher: LinkingRelease: 2009Language: Chinese(complex characters)

TURKEYFransiz SuitiPublisher: PegasusRelease: 2009Language: Turkish

UKRANIA

Publisher: PoulsaryRelease: 2012Language: Ukrainian

UKSuite FrançaisePublisher: Chatto & WindusRelease: 2006Language: English

USASuite FrançaisePublisher: KnopfRelease: 2006Language: English

VIETNAMBan Giao Huong PhapPublisher: Nha NamRelease: 2008Language: Vietnamese