The Story of Suite Française . . .
And a soul-searching question for every writer
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6 min readDec 5, 2019
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If you had no hope, would you keep writing?
This is the story of one woman’s choice.
The Suitcase
In 1941, Irène Némirovsky began work on an epic five-part novel, in which she planned to trace the unfolding war in Europe from a French perspective…