is a critically acclaimed literary work by Irène Némirovsky , a Russian-Jewish novelist living in France during World War II. While initially conceived as a five-part epic mirroring a musical suite, only the first two novellas were completed before Némirovsky was arrested and deported to Auschwitz , where she died in 1942. The Story Behind the Book

Sad, Beautiful, Absurd: Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française