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Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française . But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are four of Némirovsky'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 novel that established Néirovsky's reputation in France in 1929 when she was twenty-six. It is a novel about greed and lonliness, the story of a self-made business man, once wealthy, now suffering a breakdown as he nears the lonely end of his life. THE COURILOF AFFAIR tells the story of a Russian revolutionary living out his last days-and his recollections of his first infamous assassination. Also included are two short, gemlike novels: THE BALL, a pointed exploration of adolescence and the obsession with status among the bourgeoisie; and SNOW IN AUTUMN, an evocative tale of White Russian émigrés in Paris after the Russian Revolution. Introduced by celebrated novelist Claire Messud, this collection of four spellbinding novels offers the same storytelling mastery, powerful clarity of language, and empathic grasp of human behavior that would give shape to Suite Française .

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307267083

ISBN-139780307267085

eBay Product ID (ePID)61634806

Product Key Features

LanguageEnglish

TopicFamily Life, Short Stories (Single Author), Literary, Historical, Jewish, Fiction

AuthorIrene Nemirovsky

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Item Length8.3in

Item Height1.1in

Item Weight18.5 Oz

Item Width5.2in

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Book TitleDavid Golder, the Ball, Snow in Autumn, the Courilof Affair : Introduction by Claire Messud

Lccn2008-273612

Original LanguageFrench

Lc Classification NumberPq2627

SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.

Publication Year2008

FormatHardcover

Reviews"Stunning . . . [Némirovsky] 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 "Némirovsky'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 . . . Némirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity." -The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Némirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her." -The Nation [Némirovsky 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, Irène Némirovsky 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) From the Hardcover edition., "Stunning . . . [Némirovsky] 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 "Némirovsky'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 . . . Némirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity." -- The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Némirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her." -- The Nation [Némirovsky 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, Irène Némirovsky 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 . . . [Némirovsky] 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 "Némirovsky'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 . . . Némirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity." - The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Némirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her." - The Nation [Némirovsky 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, Irène Némirovsky 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 . . . [Nmirovsky] 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 "Nmirovsky'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 . . . Nmirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity." - The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Nmirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her." - The Nation [Nmirovsky 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, Irne Nmirovsky 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) From the Hardcover edition., "Stunning . . . [Némirovsky] 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 "Némirovsky'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 . . . Némirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity." -The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Némirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her." -The Nation [Némirovsky 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, Irène Némirovsky 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 . . . [Nmirovsky] 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 "Nmirovsky'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 . . . Nmirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity." -- The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Nmirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her." -- The Nation [Nmirovsky 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, Irne Nmirovsky 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)

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Number of Pages408 Pages