Irene Nemirovsky
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder , All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood . She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small...See more
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder , All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood . She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française . She died in Auschwitz in 1942. See less
Irene Nemirovsky's Featured Books
Irene Nemirovsky book reviews
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Chaleur Du Sang
French to English
I bought this book, "Fire in the Blood," in the original French in order to compare it to my English copy, translated beautifully by Sandra Smith. (Luckily, both books match up, page for page, so it ... Read More
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Suite Francaise
summer reading
a light story. Refreshing change of pace reading. Read More
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Fire in the Blood
A female Hemingway
Looking at the short life of Irene Nemirovsky it would seem that she was in the
atmosphere of Ernest Heminway and his group of writers in Paris, if she did not
meet and talk with them. Her prose is ... Read More
