Irène Némirovsky — Suite Franãâ§Aise
London, Chatto & Windus, 2006. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first English edition, fourth impression of this French novel sequence by Irène Némirovsky. First English language edition of this work, fourth impression. Containing two of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky. These were completed in 1942 before the author was arrested as a Jew and detained first at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz, where she was murdered as a victim of the Holocaust. The notebooks were preserved by her daughters and published in a single volume in the original French in 2004. Set in 1940 and 1941 Europe. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.
