伊莱娜·内米洛夫斯基，1903年出生于俄国基辅的一个乌克兰犹太银行家家庭，十月革命后，她移居巴黎，凭借其处女作小说《大卫·格德尔》（1929年）迎来了文学上的成功，紧接着，她又创作了小说《舞会》（1930年）。第二次世界大战的巴黎大逃亡之后，她躲在摩万的一个小镇里，后遭法国宪兵逮捕，1942年夏被杀害于奥斯维辛集中营。当时，她在十三岁的长女德尼斯带着一口箱子东躲西藏，箱子装着承载着痛苦的圣物：母亲的遗稿——直至今天才出版的《法兰西组曲》。

Suite Fran?aise is an extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation - recently discovered and published 64 years after the author's death in Auschwitz. In the early 1940s, Ir?ne N?mirovsky was a successful writer living in Paris. But she was also Jewish, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. Her two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, escaped, carrying with them, in a small suitcase, the manuscript - one of the great first-hand novelistic accounts of a way of life unravelling. Part One, "A Storm in June," is set in the chaos of the tumultuous exodus from Paris on the eve of the Nazi invasion. As the German army approaches, Parisians seize what belongings they can and flee the city, the wealthy and the poor alike searching for means to escape. Thrown together under circumstances beyond their control, a group of families and individuals with nothing in common but the harsh demands of survival find themselves facing the annihilation of their world, and human natu