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Jezebel
Irene Nemirovsky
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Description for Jezebel
Paperback. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.
In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of Suite Française, Irène ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099520382
SKU
V9780099520382
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About Irene Nemirovsky
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 Jezebel
Irène Némirovsky is the literary discovery of the decade
Sunday Times
Slender, but engrossing, novel... Némirovsky's subtle twist and typically jewelled prose presents the glittering enormity of Gladys, an unsympathetic but vividly realised character who dominates this tale in a fascinating portrait of paranoid self-absorption
Financial Times
Nemirovsky's tale of a woman on trial for shooting ... Read more
Sunday Times
Slender, but engrossing, novel... Némirovsky's subtle twist and typically jewelled prose presents the glittering enormity of Gladys, an unsympathetic but vividly realised character who dominates this tale in a fascinating portrait of paranoid self-absorption
Financial Times
Nemirovsky's tale of a woman on trial for shooting ... Read more