Suite Française

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Suite française 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 died.

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This was astonishingly good and heartbreaking. I wish there was more to it.
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A cat held a little piece of bony fish tentatively between its sharp teeth. He was afraid to swallow it, but he couldn’t bring himself to spit it out either.
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In hot rooms with blacked-out windows, children were born, and their cries made the women forget the sound of sirens and war.
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the river seemed to absorb even the faintest glimmers of light and reflect them back a hundred times brighter
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