‘Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth’ Daily Telegraph In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effect of this event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly... Zobraziť viac
In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France... Zobraziť viac
Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control... Zobraziť viac
The prequel to the best-selling Suite Francaise. Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings, as well as an... Zobraziť viac
CCV: 'it captures people's anxieties, joys and determination to maintain some normality in trying circumstances... Zobraziť viac
Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a very different world. Eventually, in search of a brighter... Zobraziť viac
In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. Zobraziť viac
Pierre and Agnčs marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist... Zobraziť viac
CCV: ` Nemirovsky's tale [...] rings more contemporary bells than we might think at first'. --Independent on Sunday`slender,... Zobraziť viac
