Four Novels
$32.07
- Hardcover
408 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2008
Summary
This collection of stories offers the same mastery of narrative, clarity of language and empathetic grasp of human behaviour that would give shape to Suite Française.
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only a coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, yet hugely talented novelist, who fled Russia for Paris after the Revolution a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593081 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593087 |
| Author: | Claire Messud, Sandra Smith, Irène Némirovsky |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 130mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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The work of a genuine artist
The work of a genuine artist – Julian Barnes
Nemirovsky has a great gift for describing the ordinariness that surrounds catastrophes… it is this ability to conjure up people, in all their moods and foibles, their selflessness or vanity, that makes Suite Francaise so remarkable * Literary Review *
About The Author
Claire Messud
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l’Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
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