Suite française (Némirovsky novel)

Suite française
First edition
AuthorIrène Némirovsky
TranslatorSandra Smith
Cover artistRoger Viollet
LanguageFrench
PublisherDenoel
Publication date
31 October 2004
Publication placeFrance
Media typePaperback
Hardback
Pages434 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN978-2-207-25645-9 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC56682049
843/.912 22
LC ClassPQ2627.E4 S85 2004

Suite française (French pronunciation: [sɥit fʁɑ̃sɛːz]; 'French Suite') is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin. In July 1942, having just completed the first two of the series, Némirovsky was arrested as a Jew and detained at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz, where she was murdered, a victim of the Holocaust. The notebook containing the two novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998. They were published in a single volume entitled Suite française in 2004.