Suite Française in Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Jan 30, 2008 Carrie rated it liked it

Rating 3.8: Well written & Interresting

"Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi Occupation in 1940, this tells the story of the men and women who were thrown into the chaos of WWII.

I read this book, right before a trip to Germany- As a result i saw the country with a sense of wonder. My host in Germany spoke of the Berlin wall and her fathers incsription to the Nazi military during the war. It is difficut to believe that this was only 68 years ago.

The author intertwines the stories in a way th ...more

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Jun 18, 2009 Inder rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, read-2011, 20th-century, 1001-books, france, war, jewish

I thought at times this book might just undo me with its emotional intensity and compassionate description of human nature. Especially as that compassion was directed at the Germans invading France (those same Germans who murdered the author in cold blood before she could finish the novel, begging the question: would she have drawn German soldiers with such compassion had she known what was really going on?). The complexity and moral ambiguity of the narrative left me deeply uncomfortable, but i ...more

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Feb 22, 2013 Anna rated it liked it · review of another edition

Spodziewałam się romansu w czasach wojny, ale książka mnie rozczarowała.

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Dec 21, 2007 Lindsay rated it liked it

Story about daily life during the German occupation of France in WWII. The aithor herself was killed in a concentration camp and did not finish three of the five stories she meant to write, nor did she get to fine tune the story. I like this sort of writing and plot. It did get slow at times, but the context in which the boo kwas written helped me push through.

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