Holocaust Literature

A history of the writing and publication of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française, a novel written during and about the Holocaust in France. (New York Times, free subscription required)

... It has been acclaimed because it is a finely made work of fiction that portrays occupied France with both severity and sympathy. It is also written with extraordinary detachment by a woman who seemed to know that her own days were numbered. This month it won the Renaudot literary prize ...

Western Europe, Holocaust