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The first collection of short stories by Irene Nemirovsky to appear
in English, this volume features stories that deal with conflict
between generations during the bourgeois period and the events of
1940 in France."
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940.
"Suite Francaise" tells the remarkable story of men and women
thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians
flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a
wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple
is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their
world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now
occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with
the enemy--in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.
When Irene Nemirovsky began working on "Suite Francaise," she was
already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was
also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz,
where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden
and unknown.
The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise Paris 1918, Bernard
Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. The city is a
whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of
parties and shady business dealings, as well as an illicit affair.
But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to
crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks
dangerously uncertain.
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Suite Francaise (Paperback)
Irene Nemirovsky; Translated by Sandra Smith
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**AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S BOOK CLUB, THE
READING ROOM** 'A masterpiece' The Sunday Times In 1941, Irene
Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude
of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and
personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Nemirovsky's
death in Auschwitz in 1942 prevented her from seeing the day,
sixty-five years later, that the existing two sections of her
planned novel sequence, Suite Francaise, would be rediscovered and
hailed as a masterpiece. Set during the year that France fell to
the Nazis, Suite Francaise falls into two parts. The first is a
brilliant depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi
invasion; the second follows the inhabitants of a small rural
community under occupation. Suite Francaise is a novel that teems
with wonderful characters struggling with the new regime. However,
amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise,
there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in
surprising places.
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Four Novels (Hardcover)
Irene Nemirovsky; Introduction by Claire Messud; Translated by Sandra Smith
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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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Jezebel (Paperback)
Irene Nemirovsky; Translated by Sandra Smith
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A dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the
author of David Golder and Suite Francaise.
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 Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows
us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.
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Fire in the Blood (Paperback)
Irene Nemirovsky; Translated by Sandra Smith
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Francaise. Set in the
rural French town in Burgundy that would also form the backdrop to
the bestselling Suite Francaise, Fire in the Blood is the story of
Silvio, his cousin's wife Helene, her second husband Francoise, and
of the truths, deaths, marriages, children, houses and mills that
bind them with love and hatred, deception and betrayal.
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Le Bal (Paperback)
Irene Nemirovsky; Translated by Sandra Smith
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Francaise. Le Bal is a
sharp, brittle story of a girl who sets out to ruin the mother she
hates. The Kampfs have risen swiftly up the ranks of 1930s Parisian
society. Painfully aware of her working-class roots, and desperate
to win acceptance, Madame Kampf decides to throw a huge ball to
announce her arrival to society. Her daughter Antoinette, who has
just turned fourteen, dreams of attending, but Madame Kampf is
resolved not to present her daughter to potential admirers. In a
fury of adolescent rage and despair, Antoinette exacts a swift and
horrible revenge... Snow in Autumn pays homage to Nemirovsky's
beloved Chekhov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant
following her masters as they flee Revolutionary Moscow and
emigrate to a life of hardship in Paris. As the crisis pushes the
family to the brink of dissolution, Tatiana struggles to adapt to
life in Paris and waits in vain for her cherished first snow of
autumn.
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