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"Quando fa il suo ingresso nell''aula di tribunale in cui verra giudicata per l''omicidio del suo giovanissimo amante, Gladys Eysenach viene accolta dai mormorii di un pubblico sovreccitato, impaziente di conoscere ogni piu sordido dettaglio di quello che promette di essere l''affaire piu succulento di quanti il bel mondo parigino abbia visto da anni. È ancora molto, molto bella, Gladys Eysenach: il tempo sembra averla ""sfiorata come a malincuore, con mano cauta e gentile"", quasi si fosse limitato ad accarezzarla teneramente, e le donne presenti nell''aula si sussurrano con invidia i nomi dei suoi innumerevoli amanti. Ma pochi giorni dopo, allorche vengono pronunciate le arringhe, tutta la sua bellezza pare averla abbandonata, e Gladys e ormai soltanto una donna vecchia e sfinita, che a mani giunte supplica i giudici di infliggerle la pena che merita. La condanna sara lieve, invece, solo cinque anni: il movente passionale ha fatto si che le venissero concesse le attenuanti previste dalla legge. Ma qual e la verita - quella verita che Gladys Eysenach ha cercato ad ogni costo di occultare? Capace come pochi altri scrittori di scavare nel cuore femminile con implacabile, chirurgica precisione, Irene Nemirovsky ci svela a poco a poco il segreto di questa donna che ha desiderato piu di ogni altra cosa di rimanere immutabilmente bella, di essere amata per sempre - e che per questo e arrivata a uccidere. "

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. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart.Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemyin their town, their homes, even in their hearts.When Irene Nemirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died.For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

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.

The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky’s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of Frenc

Esta es una obra maestra que, en el marco de una anécdota tragicómica, refleja con extraordinario arte narrativo la soledad y la rebeldía que pueden llegar a dominar la infancia y la adolescencia.

Peu après la Première Guerre mondiale, Marianne, la vingtaine insouciante, fille d'un peintre connu et d'une riche héritière, rencontre Antoine, le charmeur volage. Ils deviennent amants, finissent p

Écrit dans le feu de l''Histoire, Suite française dépeint presque en direct l''Exode de juin 1940, qui brassa dans un désordre tragique des familles françaises de toute sorte, des plus huppées aux plus modestes. Avec bonheur, Irene Nemirovsky traque les innombrables petites lachetes et les fragiles elans de solidarite d''une population en deroute. Cocottes larguees par leur amant, grands bourgeois degoutes par la populace, blesses abandonnes dans des fermes engorgent les routes de France bombardees au hasard... Peu a peu l''ennemi prend possession d''un pays inerte et apeure. Comme tant d''autres, le village de Bussy est alors contraint d''accueillir des troupes allemandes. Exacerbees par la presence de l''occupant, les tensions sociales et frustrations des habitants se reveillent...Roman bouleversant, intimiste, implacable, devoilant avec une extraordinaire lucidite l''ame de chaque Français pendant l''Occupation (enrichi de notes et de la correspondance d''Irene Nemirovsky)

L'auteur de Suite française, David Golder, Le Bal... plaçait très haut l'art de la nouvelle. Ce livre rassemble douze textes inédits, dont sept écrits sous l'Occupation. Son art du récit et de la satire s'y teinte peu a peu d'inquiétude et d'amertume. Au sommaire : Film parlé, Écho, Magie, En raison des circonstances, La Peur, Les Cartes, L'Inconnue, La Voleuse, Les Revenants, La Grande Allée, Les Vierges, L'Ami et la Femme. Ces nouvelles ont été rassemblées et présentées par Olivier Philipponnat, l'auteur de La Vie d'Irène Némirovsky.

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Némirovsky’s great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, an

«Les mouches d´automne» se situe en 1917. Tatiana Ivanovna part avec ses maîtres, chassés de leur domaine par la révolution russe. Elle les suit à Odessa puis à Paris. L´auteure décrit le désarroi no

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 Nazi regime but she left behind her this exceptional masterpiece. In "Suite Francaise", she conjures up a vivid cast of wonderful characters who find themselves thrown together in ways they never expected. Amidst the mess of defeat, and all the hypocrisy and compromise, there is hope. True nobility and love exist, but often in surprising places.

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 future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes from the world she has left behind Harry Sinner also comes to Paris to mingle in exclusive circles, until one day he buys two paintings which remind him of his past ...