The Life of Irene Nemirovsky
Author: Lienhardt, Patrick
ISBN: 9780099523987
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 May 2011
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
A remarkable, panoramic biography of the author of Suite Fran aise.
Ir ne Nemirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. Few writers enjoy posthumous success as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Fran aise. She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. They fled the Russian revolution, eventually settling in France where, with the publication of David Golder in 1929 - delivered to a publisher just before the birth of her first daughter - Ir ne swiftly became an acclaimed and successful writer. When France fell to the Nazis, Ir ne and her family took refuge in a small Burgundy village, but in July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and deported to Auschwitz. Ir ne died a month later, aged only thirty-nine.
Her biographers take advantage of access to diaries, unpublished documents and surviving family members to examine Ir ne's remarkable life, from pogroms in Ukraine to gilded holidays in Biarritz, and her troubled relationship with her vain, difficult mother. The result is a brilliant portrait of an exceptional writer and of a turbulent period of European history.
ISBN: 9780099523987
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 02 May 2011
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback / softback
A remarkable, panoramic biography of the author of Suite Fran aise.
Ir ne Nemirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. Few writers enjoy posthumous success as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Fran aise. She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. They fled the Russian revolution, eventually settling in France where, with the publication of David Golder in 1929 - delivered to a publisher just before the birth of her first daughter - Ir ne swiftly became an acclaimed and successful writer. When France fell to the Nazis, Ir ne and her family took refuge in a small Burgundy village, but in July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and deported to Auschwitz. Ir ne died a month later, aged only thirty-nine.
Her biographers take advantage of access to diaries, unpublished documents and surviving family members to examine Ir ne's remarkable life, from pogroms in Ukraine to gilded holidays in Biarritz, and her troubled relationship with her vain, difficult mother. The result is a brilliant portrait of an exceptional writer and of a turbulent period of European history.
