Description
Suite Fran aise, an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion of 1940, was a publishing sensation ten years ago; Ir ne N mirovsky completed the two-volume book, part of a planned larger series, in the early 1940s before she was arrested in France and eventually sent to Auschwitz, where she died. The notebook containing the novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998; it was finally published in France in 2004 and became a huge international bestseller, including in the US, where it has sold over one million copies.
This dramatic and stirring graphic novel, translated from the French and faithful to the spirit of N mirovsky's story, focuses on Book 1, entitled Storm in June, in which a disparate group of Paris citizens flees the city ahead of the advancing German troops. However, their orderly plans to escape are eclipsed by the chaos spreading across the country, and their sense of civility and well-being is replaced by a raw desire to survive.
A feature film version of Suite Fran aise, starring Michelle Williams, Kristen Scott Thomas, and Margot Robbie, was recently released.
Emmanuel Moynot is a graphic artist and the author of more than forty graphic novels published in France.
Author: Emmanuel Moynot
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 10/13/2015
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781551525969
ISBN10: 1551525968
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Historical Fiction
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Literary
About the Author
Emmanuel Moynot: Emmanuel Moynot is a graphic artist and the author of more than 40 graphic novels published in France, including a series based on novelist Leo Malet's French detective Nestor Burma. His graphic novel based on Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française is his first to be published in English.