Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky
through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite
Francaise. But Suite Francaise 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
and died at Auschwitz at the age of 39. Here in one volume are four
of Nemirovsky's other novels - all of them newly translated by the
award-winning Sandra Smith, and all, except David Golder, available
in English for the first time. David Golder is the book that
established Nemirovsky's reputation in France in 1929 when she was
twenty-six. It is a novel about greed and loneliness, the story of
an ageing Russian Jewish businessman,an exile in France, learning
to confront death and the knowledge that wealth has not brought him
happiness. The Ball is both a sensitive exploration of
adolescenceand a mercilessexposure of bourgeois social pretension.
Snow in Autumn is an evocative tale of White Russian emigres in
Paris, while in The Courilof Affair a retired Russian revolutionary
recalls an infamous assassinationcommitted in his youth. Introduced
by novelist Claire Messud.
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Sun, 18 Oct 2020 | Review
by: Blik Snyman
David Golder is brilliant - good enough reason to but this anthology
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