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Disorganised and overrated! - Rated
I was very disappointed by this book. I found it very hard to get in to. There are far too many characters and scenarios and i found it hard to develop any empathy with the characters. Eventually gave up half way through Dolce and skipped to the letters at the back!
Nice cover, disappointing contents - Rated
I was very keen to read this book after hearing so many great reviews of it - have kept trying to progress with it but have finally admitted defeat. Just dull, with characters who made zero impact on me.
Disappointed - Rated
I really wanted to love Suite Francaise but I just didn't. My mistake was that I tried to read it as a polished novel but found it disjointed and frustrating as such. My friend looked at it as a piece of social history and thoroughly enjoyed it. I would recommend this approach to future readers.
For me, the most fascinating part of the book is "the preface to the French edition". It covers Irene Nemirovsky's intriguing life(I've added her autobiography le Vin de Solitude to my TBR list) and the touching events of how the novel came into being. Also poignant are the letters that her husband, Michel Epstein, wrote to try and secure her release after she was arrested and sent to Auschwitz where she would eventually die.
Real time description of life in France during the occupation - Rated
Although this is a work of fiction Irene Nemirovsky was there as these events were unfolding and it's amazing, considering what eventually happened to her and her family, how generous she was able to be when writing about the Occuping Forces in this book by concentrating on the humane and the every day. The first part deals with the evacuation of Paris before the Nazis reach it. The second part tells of life as it was in a traditional French village occupied by the Germans later. When you read the appendices it's obvious this was planned as a much bigger oeuvre which tragically was never completed as she was imprisoned and died in camp.
All human characteristics are shown - many not flattering - cowardice, selfishness, prejudice, self interest and the class system all feature. There are some redeeming characters - one of these a German officer.
A very humane and compassionate book which I thoroughly enjoyed.
A compelling gripping book that had me hungry to read more - Rated
I was transported back to war torn France and walked the dusty roads to the concentration camps with other prisoners or so it seemed. How lucky was I to be able to imagine and not recount from personal experience. The author has a story to tell and elegantly she succeeds allowing generations after her to know what it was like for people caught up in such madness. I took this book along with two others on holiday and settled down on the hot sands to read, I was unprepared for such a brilliant read. I must also recommend: The Fates by Tino Georgiou--his book captured my attention as diligently as Suite Francaise.
