Suite Francaise by Irène Némirovsky
(chosen by Domestic Goddess)
Meeting date: September 18th
Venue: KE's house
Some links for background information to get you started...
- Sydney Morning Herald review
- Sydney Morning Herald bookclub blog
- New York Times book review
- bookbrowse.com's bookclub reading guide
- Wikipedia's biography of Irène Némirovsky
- M (whose Sydney bookclub has already done this book) highly recommends listening to a radio interview with Irene Nemirovsky's daughter Denise Epstein and Suite Francaise translater Sandra Smith. Denise tells the story of this book from her own point of view.
The interview is conducted by US nationally syndicated radio host Diane Rehm and can be listened to by clicking the appropriate link on this site.
3 comments:
This is my FAVOURITE book this year. But, I don't want to talk it up too much as I think a lot of the joy of it is in the discovery.
This is really shaping up to be a really great read. Can't wait to get into it!!!
-=sigh=- I loved this book.
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