David Golder. Irne Nmirovsky
Irène Némirovsky
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Paperback. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Francaise and her death at Auschwitz. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.
Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.
In 1929, 26-year-old Irène Némirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Française and her death at Auschwitz. Yet the clues are there in this astonishingly mature story of an elderly Jewish businessman who has sold his soul.
Golder is a superb creation. Born into poverty on the Black Sea, he has ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099493969
SKU
KJE0000332
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About Irène Némirovsky
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, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. In ... Read more
Reviews for David Golder. Irne Nmirovsky
Her deceptively simply and understated style is best suited to shorter fiction: her touch is light, but with an underlying darkness that bears witness to exile, marginality and existential frustration
Aamer Hussein
Independent
This is a writer of rare power, make no mistake
Evening Standard
A sordid tragedy that makes us for the thousandth time ... Read more
Aamer Hussein
Independent
This is a writer of rare power, make no mistake
Evening Standard
A sordid tragedy that makes us for the thousandth time ... Read more