Posted AT 9:15 AM EDT on 15/04/06
Masterpiece from madness
Suite Française
By Irène Némirovsky
Translated by Sandra Smith
Knopf Canada, 395 pages, $34.95
If you read only one piece of fiction this year, read Irène Némirovsky's miraculous last novel. Suite Française is miraculous for the power, brilliance and beauty of the writing, and for the very wholeness of the work, despite its being less than half the 1,000 pages its author intended.
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