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Suite Française
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 Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the
daughter of a successful Jewish banker.
In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France
where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David
Golder, Le Bal, The Couril of Affair, All Our Worldly
Goods.
During World War II, Irène Némirovsky was prevented
from publishing when the Germans occupied France and
had to flee Paris with her husband Michel and her two
small daughters.
In July 1942, she was deported to Birkenau and died
within a month.
In October 1942, just before being arrested by the police of
the French Vichy government, Michel Epstein entrusted
his daughter Denise a large leatherbound notebook.
Denise had often watched her mother writing - in tiny
handwriting to save ink and paper - in the notebook.
She took it as a memento of her mother. The suitcase
accompanied Denise and her sister Elisabeth from one
precarious hiding place to another.
After the war, they couldn’t bring themselves to read the
notebook; it was too painful.
Many years passed, and Denise and her sister agreed they
should entrust their mother’s notebook to an organization
dedicated to documenting memories of the war, in order
to preserve it. Before giving it up, Denise decided to type
it out. She began the long, difficult task of deciphering the
minuscule handwriting.
Soon, she discovered that these were not simply notes
or a private diary, as she had thought, but a violent
masterpiece, a fresco of extraordinary lucidity, a vivid
snapshot of France and the French; here was the exodus
from Paris; villages invaded by exhausted, hungry women
and children battling to find a place to sleep, if only a
chair in a country inn; cars piled high with furniture, and
left abandoned in the roads; the rich trying to save their
precious jewels; a German soldier falling in love with a
French woman under the watchful eye of her mother-in-
law…
Denise Epstein sent the manuscript to the publisher Denoël
and this, sixty-four years after her mother’s death.”*

*part of the French preface by Myriam Anissimov

 The novel was an
immediate success; it
has been published
in 41 countries and
more than 3 million
books have been sold
worldwide.
Prix Renaudot 2004 - Premio Libro del
Ano 2005 in Spain - nomination at the Borders
Book of the Year, category of the Galaxy
British Book Awards in the UK - Independent
Booksellers’ Book of the Year 2007 – Best
Books of 2006 by Amazon USA…
 SUITE
FRANCAISE
by
Irene Nemirovsky

38 languages and 41 countries

ALBANIA
Publisher: DITURIA
To be published

AUSTRALIA / NEW
ZEALAND
Suite Française
Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS
Release: February 2006
Language: English

BRAZIL
Suite Francesa
Publisher: Companhia das Letras
Release: 2006
Language: Portuguese
BULGARIA
Publisher: Lege Artis
Language: Bulgarian
Release: 2009

CANADA (English-speaking)
Suite Française
Publisher: Knopf
Release: April 2006
Language: English

CHINA
Suite Française
Publisher: Shanghai 99
Reader Culture
Release: 2006
Language: Chinese (simplified
characters)
CROATIA
Francuska Suita
Publisher: Vukovic & Runjic
Release: 2006
Language: Croatian

CZECH REPUBLIC
Francouzska Suita
Publisher: Paseka
Release: 2011
Language: Czech

DENMARK
Storm i Juni
Publisher: Tiderne Skifter
Release: 2006
Language: Danish
ESTONIA
Prantsuse Suit
Publisher: Eesti Ekspress
Release: 2012
Language : Estonian

FINLAND
Ranskalainen Sarja
Publisher: Gummerus
Release: 2005
Language : Finish

FRENCH SPEAKING EDITIONS

Suite Française
Publisher:Denoël
Language: French

GERMANY
Suite Française
Publisher: Knaus Verlag
Release: 2005
Language: German
GREECE
Publisher: Pataki
Release: 2005
Language: Greek

HUNGARY
Suite Française
Publisher: Aeternitas
Release: 2006
Language: Hungarian

INDONESIA
Suite Française
Publisher: Hikmah
Release: June 2011
Language: Indonesian
IRELAND
Suite Française
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release: February 2006
Language: English

ICELAND
Fronsk Svita
Publisher: JPV Forlagid
Release: October 2011
Language: Icelandic

ISRAEL
Publisher: Keter
Release: 2005
Language: Hebrew
ITALY
Suite Francese
Publisher: Adelphi Edizioni
Release: October 2005
Language: Italian

JAPAN
Publisher: Hakusui Sha
Release: 2012
Language: Japanese

LEBANON
Publisher: All Prints
Release: August 2010
Language: Arabic

LITHUANIA
Prancuziska Siuita
Publisher: Baltos Lankos
Release: 2010
Language: Lithuanian
NETHERLANDS
Storm in Juni
Publisher: De Geus
Release: 2005
Language: Dutch

NORWAY
Storm i Juni
Publisher: Arneberg Forlag
Release: 2006
Language: Norwegian

POLAND
Francuska Suita
Publisher: Albatros
Release: April 2006
Language: Polish
PORTUGAL
Suite Francesa
Publisher: Dom Quixote
Release: October 2005
Language: Portuguese

ROMANIA
Suita Fanceza
Publisher: Paralela 45
Release: 2006
Language: Romanian

RUSSIA
Suite Française
Publisher: Text
Release: 2006
Language: Russian
SERBIA
Francuska Svita
Publisher: Laguna
Release: 2005
Language: Serbian

SLOVAKIA
Publisher: Tatran
Release: to be published

SLOVENIA
Publisher: Ucila International Zalozba
Release: to be published

SOUTH AFRICA
Suite Française
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release: Feb. 2006
Language: English
SOUTH KOREA
Publisher: Munhak Segye-Sa
Release: 2005
Language: Korean

SPAIN
In Castilian
Suite Francesa
Publisher: Salamandra
Release: 2005

In Catalan
Suite Francesa
Publisher: RBA / La Magrana
Release: 2006

In Basque
Suite Frantsesa
Publisher: Alberdania
Release: 2011

SOUTH AFRICA
Suite Française
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release: Feb. 2006
Language: English
SWEDEN
Storm over Frankrike
Publisher: Albert Bonniers Forlag
Release: 2006
Language: Swedish

TAIWAN
Publisher: Linking
Release: 2009
Language: Chinese
(complex characters)

TURKEY
Fransiz Suiti
Publisher: Pegasus
Release: 2009
Language: Turkish
UKRANIA
Publisher: Poulsary
Release: 2012
Language: Ukrainian

UK
Suite Française
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Release: 2006
Language: English

USA
Suite Française
Publisher: Knopf
Release: 2006
Language: English

VIETNAM
Ban Giao Huong Phap
Publisher: Nha Nam
Release: 2008
Language: Vietnamese