Four Novels (Everyman's Library CLASSICS) - Hardcover

Irène Némirovsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841593087 ISBN 13: 9781841593081

Publisher: Everyman's Library

Synopsis

Unusual book

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Review:

Stunning . . . [Nemirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisive fiction that conflict has produced.
New York Times Book Review
Nemirovsky s scope is like that of Tolstoy: she sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest.
O, The Oprah Magazine
Extraordinary . . . Nemirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.
The Washington Post Book World
Brilliant . . . [Nemirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her.
The Nation
[Nemirovsky had] an alert eye for self-deceit, a tender regard for the natural world, and a forlorn gift for describing the crumbling, sliding descent of an entire society into catastrophic disorder.
London Review of Books
Transcendent, astonishing . . . Like Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky was unaware . . . that she might not survive. And still, she writes to us.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A novelist of the very first order, perceptive and sly in her emotional restraint.
Evening Standard (London)"

"Stunning . . . [Nemirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisive fiction that conflict has produced."
--New York Times Book Review

"Nemirovsky's scope is like that of Tolstoy: she sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest."
--O, The Oprah Magazine

"Extraordinary . . . Nemirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Brilliant . . . [Nemirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her."
--The Nation

[Nemirovsky had] an alert eye for self-deceit, a tender regard for the natural world, and a forlorn gift for describing the crumbling, sliding descent of an entire society into catastrophic disorder."
--London Review of Books

"Transcendent, astonishing . . . Like Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky was unaware . . . that she might not survive. And still, she writes to us."
--Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A novelist of the very first order, perceptive and sly in her emotional restraint."
--Evening Standard (London)

About the Author:

Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise, was published posthumously, for the first time, in 2006.

Claire Messud is the award-winning author of four works of fiction: When the World Was Steady, The Hunters, The Last Life, and, most recently, The Emperor's Children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• ISBN 10: 1841593087
• ISBN 13: 9781841593081
• Binding: Hardcover