Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Fran aise
Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of N mirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Fran aise a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.54w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780307476364
ISBN10: 0307476367
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of N mirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Fran aise a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/06/2010
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.54w x 0.88d
ISBN13: 9780307476364
ISBN10: 0307476367
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris she began to write and swiftly achieved success with David Golder, which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, Suite Française, was published posthumously, for the first time, in 2006.