Suite Française — France
A French village in Burgundy in 1941 under German occupation — a young widow and the German officer billeted at her farmhouse develop a forbidden relationship amid the moral compromises of occupation.
Suite Française is based on the unfinished novel of Irène Némirovsky, a Russian-born Jewish writer living in France. She was arrested and deported to Auschwitz in July 1942, where she died of typhus. Her manuscript was hidden in a suitcase by her daughters and only discovered and published in 2004, 62 years after her death — it became an instant international bestseller.