Irene Nemirovsky, Author, Bridget Patterson, Translator , trans. from the French by Bridget Patterson. Vintage $15 (293p) ISBN 978-0-307-47636-4
Ten luminous and newly translated stories by Némirovsky (Suite Française
), who died at Auschwitz, expose the miseries that undermine happy families. Set mostly in France, where the author immigrated after the Russian revolution, these
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Irene Nemirovsky, Author, Barbara Rosenblat, Recorded by, Daniel Oreskes, Read by , read by Daniel Oreskes and Barbara Rosenblat. HighBridge Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59887-020-6
HighBridge has chosen exceptional readers for these remarkable novellas. Oreskes reads "Storm in June" in a clear, low storyteller's voice, changing tone to designate characters without trying to act out or be those characters. He...
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Ir%C3%A8ne N%C3%A9mirovsky, trans. from the French by Sandra Smith. Vintage, $14.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-74329-9
A world at war ruptures the orderly lives of two French provincial families connected by marriage in this serenely beautiful tale by French novelist Némirovsky (Suite Française). In the northern village of Saint-Elme, early in the 20th century,...
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Irène Némirovsky, trans. from the French by Sandra Smith. Vintage, $15 trade paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-74548-4
Némirovsky’s (Suite Française) tragically short life is epitomized in this mournful yet effervescent autobiographical novel spanning WWI, the Russian revolution, and the 1920s. Hélène’s passage from Kiev to Finland and finally Paris follows her...
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Irene Nemirovsky, Author, Mark Bramhall, Read by , read by Mark Bramhall. Random House Audio $27.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-5776-7
Silvio, the narrator of Némirovsky's brief, posthumously published novel, lives alone on his small farm in pre–WWII rural France, committed to his permanent bachelorhood. But as he watches the affairs of young people around him, he recalls...
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Irene Nemirovsky, Author, Sandra Smith, Translator , trans. from the French by Sandra Smith. Knopf $25 (395p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4473-3
Celebrated in pre-WWII France for her bestselling fiction, the Jewish Russian-born Némirovsky was shipped to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942, months after this long-lost masterwork was composed. Némirovsky, a convert to Catholicism,...
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Irene Nemirovsky, Author, Sandra Smith, Translator , trans. from the French by Sandra Smith. Knopf $22 (137p) ISBN 978-0-307-26748-1
When she was writing Suite Française
in 1940, Némirovsky, who died in Auschwitz in 1942 before turning 40, was also reworking this novel, newly discovered among her papers. Though composed on a smaller canvas, it is another keenly...
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Irene Nemirovsky, Author, Sandra Smith, Translator, Claire Messud, Introduction by , trans. from the French by Sandra Smith; intro by Claire Messud. Random/Everyman's Library $25 (363p) ISBN 978-0-307-26708-5
Through the 1920s and '30s Russian-Jewish émigré Némirovsky, author of the recently rediscovered and internationally bestselling Suite Française
, was a popular and critically acclaimed novelist in her adopted France.
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