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Som a començaments dels anys trenta en un poble del centre de França. Un home vell recorda. Despres d'haver dut una vida viatgera, Silvio es mante al marge de tot i observa la comedia humana que es desenvolupa als camps, la tranquil"litat de la vida dels pagesos. François i Helene Erard tambe recorden: la seva primera i fugaç trobada, el matrimoni d'ella amb un propietari vell i ric, la viudetat posterior, l'espera i, finalment, el retrobament amb el seu primer amor. Quan Colette es casa amb Jean Dorin sembla que tots plegats s'encaminen vers una vida pausada i feliç. Pero uns mesos mes tard, arriba el drama. La mort per ofegament de Jean trenca la falsa quietud d'aquest entorn de provincies. Un rere l'altre, els secrets que uneixen els protagonistes d'aquesta intriga sorgeixen en el relat de Silvio fins a una darrera i pertorbadora revelacio.

La publicación del manuscrito que Irène Némirovsky dejó en una maleta que sus hijas guardaron durante sesenta años causó una auténtica conmoción en el mundo editorial. Suite francesa narra como miles

An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. "Suite Francaise" tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy--in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. When Irene Nemirovsky began working on "Suite Francaise," she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. This is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power and an elegy to lost world. En 1903, el Comité Revolucionario encomienda a Leon M., un dedicado terrorista, la responsabilidad de 'liquidar' a Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, el brutal y notoriamente sanguinario Ministro de Educación ruso. Esta es una inspiradora observación de las motivaciones humanas y de los abusos de poder, así como una elegía al mundo perdido.

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels "All Our Worldly Goods", though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right...De maneras realmente evocadoras, esta extraordinaria y adictiva novela es un antecedente de "Suite Francaise" y de algunos de los temas de la gran serie inacabada de novelas de Irene Nemirovsky "All Our Worldly Goods", sin embargo, es una novela completa, exquisitamente acabada, una novela perfecta en si misma por derecho propio...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II. Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood - only now assembled in its entirety - teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when "peace" was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroubled pinnacle of happiness. At the center of the novel is Silvio, who has returned to this small town after years away. As his narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture of the loves and infidelities, the scandals, the youthful ardor and regrets of age that tie Silvio to the long-guarded secrets of the past.

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Némirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author's death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. Pierre and Agnès marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up with Némirovsky's characteristically sly humour and clear-eyed compassion. Full of drama and heartbreak, telling observation of the devastating effects of two wars on a small town and an industrial family, this is Némirovsky at the height of her powers. The exodus and flow of refugee humanity through the town in both wars foreshadows Suite Française, but differently, because this is Northern France, near the Somme, and the town itself is twice razed. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, the novel points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly... It opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy beach, and ends with a changed world, under Nazi occupation.

Novela excepcional escrita en condiciones excepcionales,Suite francesa retrata con maestría una época fundamental de la Europa del siglo XX.En otoño de 2004 le fue concedido el premio Renaudot, otorgado por primera vez a un autor fallecido.Imbuida de un claro componente autobiografico,Suite francesa se inicia en Paris los dias previos a la invasion alemana, en un clima de incertidumbre e incredulidad. Enseguida, tras las primeras bombas, miles de familias se lanzan a las carreteras en coche, en bicicleta o a pie. Nemirovsky dibuja con precision las escenas, unas conmovedoras y otras grotescas, que se suceden en el camino: ricos burgueses angustiados, amantes abandonadas, ancianos olvidados en el viaje, los bombardeos sobre la poblacion indefensa, las artimañas para conseguir agua, comida y gasolina. A medida que los alemanes van tomando posesion del pais, se vislumbra un desmoronamiento del orden social imperante y el nacimiento de una nueva epoca.La presencia de los invasores despertara odios, pero tambien historias de amor clandestinas y publicas muestras de colaboracionismo. Concebida como una composicion en cinco partes -de las cuales la autora solo alcanzo a escribir dos-Suite francesa combina un retrato intimista de la burguesia ilustrada con una vision implacable de la sociedad francesa durante la ocupacion. Con lucidez, pero tambien con un desasosiego notablemente exento de sentimentalismo, Nemirovsky muestra el fiel reflejo de una sociedad que ha perdido su rumbo. El tono realista y distante de Nemirovsky le permite componer una radiografia fiel del pais que la ha abandonado a su suerte y la ha arrojado en manos de sus verdugos. Estamos pues ante un testimonio profundo y conmovedor de la condicion humana, escrito sin la facilidad de la distancia ni la perspectiva del tiempo, por alguien que no llego a conocer siquiera el final del cataclismo que le toco vivir.La critica ha dicho...Una narracion de un vigor extraordinario.Le MondeUna obra excelente.New York TimesEs preciso leer este libro.Le Nouvel ObservateurUna obra maestra.L'ExpressUn libro de una calidad literaria excepcional.TLSSensacional recuperacion [...] Nemirovsky registra con portentosa serenidad, sin consentirse ninguna flaqueza sentimental, la perturbacion de los hombres y mujeres zarandeados por la guerra. [...]Se trata de una escritora que crea adiccion.BabeliaLa lectura de este libro significa mucho mas que el simple acercamiento a un documento tragico de una epoca fundamental para la historia de Europa.ABC de las letrasLiteratura de la mejor cepa. [...]Suite francesa por lo tanto, ademas de ficcion pura, es un documento personal y directo del mismo rango que el Diario de Ana Frank o Una mujer en Berlin de autora anonima.CulturasHay novelas llenas de verdad capaces de conservar intacto entre sus paginas un trozo del mundo. Esta es una de ellas.TerritoriosSuite francesa es una excelente novela que ha crecido con los años. [...] La obra de Nemirovsky debe interpretarse como un acto de resistencia del espiritu contra el fanatismo y la intolerancia Sus palabras aun nos iluminan.El CulturalUn fresco extraordinario, de una hondura humana e inteligencia literaria prodigiosos.Caballo Verde

Àmpliament autobiogràfica, Vi de solitud (1935) descriu el destí d'una família russa refugiada a París. El desarrelament, la solitud, però també la voluntat ferotge d'alliberar-se de totes les cotil

In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of Suite Française, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.

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.

A la ciutat ucraïnesa bressol de la família Sinner, els jueus, perseguits i menystinguts, malden per ascendir en la societat fins que el poder i els diners els situïn a l'abric de l'odi. L'Ada i en

Suite francesa descriu gairebe en directe l'exode que van haver de patir molts francesos el juny de 1940. Un exode que va suposar un desordre tràgic a tota mena de famílies. Irene Nemirovsky no estal

The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky's life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of F

Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'œuvre, est suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points : • Mouvement littéra

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940.Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemyin their town, their homes, even in their hearts.When Irene Nemirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died.For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

Publicada pòstumament el 1946, la biografia de Txèkhov escrita per Némirovsky revela la proximitat que l’autora tenia amb la sensibilitat del gran escriptor rus. Anton Txèkhov va conèixer totes les

The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky’s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of Frenc