The Courilof Affair

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Informationen zum Autor Ir ne N mirovsky 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 Fran aise 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'Ev que (in German occupied territory). It was here that Ir ne began writing Suite Fran aise. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. Klappentext From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise.In 1903 L on M - the son of two Russian revolutionaries - 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 carried out in the most grandiose manner possible in order to strike the imagination of the people. Posing as his newly appointed personal physician L on M takes up residence with Courilof in his summer house in the Iles and awaits instructions. But over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of the man he must kill - his failing health his troubled domestic situation and most importantly the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments. Set during a period of radical upheaval in European history The Courliof Affair is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power an elegy to a lost world and an unflinchingly topical cautionary tale. Zusammenfassung From the author of the bestselling Suite Française. In 1903 Léon M - the son of two Russian revolutionaries - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee....