Suite Francaise: Storm In June

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Suite Fran aise is an extraordinary novel about village life in France just as it was plunged into chaos with the German invasion of 1940. It was a publishing sensation ten years ago; Ir--ne Nmirovsky completed the two-volume book in the early 1940s before she was arrested and sent to Auschwitz, where she died. The notebook containing the novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998 and it was finally published in 2004, immediately becoming an international bestseller. This is a stunning, black and white graphic novel retelling of that story.

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What captivated me about this adaptation was the real sense of turbulence, indeed absolute utter chaos, brought to people's lives overnight by the enforced Parisian exodus, and the very different reactions of the protagonists' responses. --Page 45

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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 Irne Nmirovsky's Suite Franaise is his first to be published in English.