Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Francaise. But Suite Francaise was only a coda to the brief yet prolific career of this remarkable novelist, for years nearly forgotten....

The prequel to the bestselling 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....

In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She......

In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky\"s heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Nazi regime but she left behind her this exceptional masterpiece....

Nice, 1920 un jeune médecin affamé, Dario, accepte de pratiquer un avortement clandestin sur une flamboyante aventurière new-yorkaise afin de sauver de la déchéance Clara, sa femme, et leur nourrisson. Une......

In certain uncanny ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise and rehearses some of the themes of her big unfinished sequence of novels. Nemirovsky must have down put her pen in 1940 and picked it straight up again to embark on......

An intense story of self-destructive love: Irene Nemirovsky\'s first novel, written when she was just twenty-one. \"The Misunderstanding\" is Irene Nemirovsky\'s first novel, written when she was just twenty-one and published in a literary journal two years later....

Introspective, intense and poignant, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical of all Irene Nemirovsky\'s novels, now available in English for the first time. Imbued with melancholy, and regret, it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and her mother\'s lover, Max....

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....

Trial of a beautiful woman, no longer young, who listens in the boxing charged on account of his own life: childhood, exile, father absence, marriage, troubled relationship with his daughter, age and decline, until irreparable act. A camera that also questions the guilt of the time, the erosion of feelings and emotional illusion....

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......

In 1941, Irиne Nйmirovsky 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....

In 1903 Leon 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....

Rarement l\"ironie d\"lrene Nemirovsky aura fait autant de ravages! Fils et filles hantes par leur here-dite cotoient des hommes brusquement depouilles de leurs atouts, des femmes abimees dans le regret, des maris jaloux ou amers. Et pourtant, si fragile que soit le sort de ces personnages, un fil les relie a la vie....

Sequins, feathers and rhinestones, flowers, men mad with love, the intoxication of applause ... this is the day of the beautiful Ida Sconin famous leader in Paris magazine. But time passes relentlessly and it becomes increasingly difficult to illusion....