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The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942 Book

Irene Nemirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. Dead at 39 author of 16 novels a biography of Chekhov and many stories few writers enjoy a posthumous resurgence as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Francaise. She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. The authors of this fascinating biography have had access to previously unpublished documents and to surviving family members in Russia researching her childhood in the Ukraine and tracing her odyssey first to St Petersburg where her father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. They settled in Paris and in 1926 she married another Jewish emigre Michel Epstein. With the publication of David Golder in 1929 - delivered to a publisher just before the birth of her first daughter Irene swiftly became an acclaimed and successful writer.Read More

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  • Waterstones

    Irene Nemirovsky was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. This biography traces 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 Finlan

  • Pickabook

    Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron (Trans)

  • 0701182881
  • 9780701182885
  • Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt
  • 4 March 2010
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 480
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