The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: Author of Suite Française
Olivier Philipponnat; Patrick Lienhardt
ISBN 10: 0307397629 ISBN 13: 9780307397621
Published by Knopf Canada, 2010
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A major biography of Irène Némirovksy, author of the acclaimed and internationally bestselling Suite Française — with new material never published in English.
Irène Némirovksy's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. And few writers enjoy a posthumous resurgence as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Française. The authors of this fascinating biography have had access to previously unpublished documents and to surviving family members in Russia, researching there her childhood in the Ukraine, and tracing her odyssey first to St Petersburg, where her father was a successful financier, and then, as the family was forced to flee the Russian Revolution, to Finland, Sweden and finally France in 1919.
Meticulously researched and passionately felt, this is a remarkable, panoramic biography of an exceptional writer, a moving portrait of a woman and of her extraordinary times, and a sweeping saga of a turbulent period of European history, holding up a mirror to the world of publishing, intellectual thought, society and the darker shadow of prejudice between the wars.
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Title: The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: Author of ...
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
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