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All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Vintage International Original (Paperback)
In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irene Nemirovsky's masterpiece "Suite Francaise." Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author's death, "All Our Worldly Goods "is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pier ...Show more
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
$24.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures "Suite Francaise" and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. "All Our Worldly Goods", though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the aut ...Show more
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: Judaica
This perfect gem of a novel by the author of the posthumously acclaimed and bestselling "Suite Francaise" has never previously been published and was discovered only recently in separate archive files. A couple of pages were in the famous suitcase which her daughters saved, and the balance had been depo ...Show more
Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: Judaica
In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, h ...Show more
Le Bal and Snow In Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
$19.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Le Bal" depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. But Madame Kampf is resolved not to present her ...Show more
Misunderstanding, The by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: New Fiction
"The Misunderstanding" is Irene Nemirovsky's first novel, written when she was just twenty-one and published in a literary journal two years later. An intense story of self-destructive and blighted love, it is also a tragic satire of French society after the Great War. Yves Harteloup, scarred by the war ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky's gripping and heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Naz ...Show more
Suite Francaise (Film Tie-in) by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: Judaica
France, 1940. Lucile Angellier's husband has been captured as a prisoner-of-war, and all she can do is wait for him - and tend to the household controlled by her domineering mother-in-law. Their small village is soon occupied by a regiment of German soldiers, forcing the locals to coexist with an invadi ...Show more
The Courilof Affair by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: Judaica
In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. The assassination, he is told, must take place in public and be in most grandiose m ...Show more
The Fires of Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: Judaica
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 illicit affair. But as another war threatens, everything ...Show more
The Fires of Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
$32.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irene Nemirovsky's life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Francaise, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare ...Show more
The Misunderstanding by Irene Nemirovsky
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Category: Judaica
From the author of Suite Francaise this is a compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive love. Yves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war. He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays. Ther ...Show more