![]() ![]() But it is also, perhaps paradoxically, darkly funny, a book that, in cleaving to life's tiny, quotidian details, captures the comic essence of experience" - Claire Messud, Bookforum Set during and after the fall of France, this is a bleak and often harrowing satire, one that unmasks the pettiness and self-involved terrors of a privileged people confronted with the physical and ethical collapse of their way of life. "'Storm in June' and 'Dolce,' the two existing volumes of Némirovsky's projected five-volume Suite, are sections of what would have been a masterpiece.Consists of two novellas, Storm in June and Dolce, and Appendices which include Némirovsky's notes, and correspondence from 1936-1945Ī : excellent slice-of-life depiction, sharply observedĪlmost (but not quite) universal high and highest acclaim.Includes an edited version of Myriam Anissimov's Preface to the French Edition.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. ![]()
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