NATIONAL BESTSELLER The remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control during World War IIa heartrending “portrait of a small French town under seige, and the people trying to survive, even to live, as Hitlers horrors march closer and closer to their doors” (New York).

Stunning…. A tour de force. The New York Times Book Review

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940, 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 Irne Nmirovsky began working on Suite Franaise, 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.