This time something a little different book wise… something that will shock some people.

The book is Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky.  This is a novel written in the 1940s during the war period by acclaimed writer and novellest  Irène Némirovsky.  A Russo-French-Jewish author who wrote this booking during the war period and then unfortunately died at Auscwitz in 1942.  The book sat a long time before being found and published in english in 2002, 60 years after her death.  That is a LONG time.

The book is a fiction novel but slightly towards my interest as it is written about France during the occupation by Nazi Germany.  Not only that it follows the lives of French Citizens during not only the occupation but also during the Invasion of France by the Germans and the seemingly mass exodus of people from Paris.  The book felt like I was reading a modern take on War & Peace as there was love, war, all the bits and pieces you would expect from the Tolstoy Classic but in a much more modern feel as rather than the French Russian war of the 1800s it is of the French German war of the 40s.  A very different time period obviously.

Although not my normal kind of book it wasn’t bad and I don’t really have all that much to talk about it, to be honest it broke up the usual books I read and gave me something different to read but I probably wouldn’t of read or even heard of it had I not been recommended it by a Tour Guide while visiting France last year.  In saying that, if you want a fictional representation of Nazi Occupied Europe, it should be on your list.