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Praise for Irène Némirovsky "Stunning. . . . A tour de force." -The New York Times Book Review on Suite Française
"Luminous. . . . 'Flesh and Blood' is a master-piece of familial subterfuge." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Di-manche and Other Stories
"Stunning . . . [Némirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisive fiction." -New York Times Book Review on David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair
"A masterpiece of observation and character study." -New York magazine on Suite Française
"Breathtaking. . . . Némirovsky [has] powers of social observation, [and an] implacable eye for the nuances of human conduct." -The Financial Times on The Wine of Solitude
About the author
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1903 into a wealthy Jewish family. From there they moved to St. Peters-burg, Russia where she continued a life of privilege until the Bolshevik Revolution caused the family to emigrate to Fin-land, then to Sweden, and finally to France in 1919 where she immersed herself in the company of thinkers, artists, musi-cians and cultural elites as a part of the Parisian literati of her time.
Sixty-two years after her death, in 2004, Irène Némirovsky's never-before-published Suite Française, a novel of France during the German Occupation, received the prestigious Prix Renaudot, and brought international acclaim to this gifted writer whose life was tragically lost in the Holocaust. She passed from typhus in 1942 in the Auschwitz concentration camp at the age of thirty-nine, leaving behind two young daughters and an enduring legacy in literature.
