![]() The second novella, Dolce, centers around the small town of Bussy during the period of German occupation. The story follows several groups – an upper-middle class family, a priest sheparding a group of orphans and delinquents, a writer and his mistress, and a couple of working-class bank employees – as they are forced to abandon their lives and possessions, and make their way towards the illusion of safety while basic transportation and infrastructure is being bombed by the Germans. ![]() The first novella, Storm in June, follows the fates of the refugees who are forced to flee from the German advance on Paris in June 1940. Summary: Suite Française is the first two novellas from an unfinished five-novella work – unfinished because Irène Némirovsky, a French Jew, was captured by the Germans in 1942 and sent to Auschwitz, where she died a month later. Genre: Not really historical fiction, since it was contemporary when it was written… I’d say somewhere between literary and historical fiction. ![]() Read By: Daniel Oreskes & Barbara Rosenblat Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (originally written ~1941-2 published 2004) ![]()
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