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Subject(s)

• Gille, Élisabeth 1937-1996—Childhood and youth [Browse]
• Némirovsky, Irène 1903-1942 [Browse]
• Russians—France—Paris—Biography [Browse]
• Political refugees—France—Paris—Biography [Browse]
• Authors, French—20th century—Biography [Browse]
• World War, 1939-1945—Jews—France [Browse]
• Paris (France)—Intellectual life—20th century [Browse]
• France—Ethnic relations [Browse]

Related name

Harss, Marina [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Autobiographical fiction [Browse]

Series

New York Review Books classics [More in this series]

Summary note

"Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky , a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her mother's memoirs...The Mirador is a haunted and haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love"--P. [4] of cover.

Notes

Includes an interview with the author.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226).

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Language note

Translated from the French.

Contents

• PART I: Irene Nemirovsky
• November, 1929
• PART II: Irene Nemirovsky
• June, 1942
• Acknowledgements. Notes. Afterword. Elisabeth Gille and Rene de Ceccatty: An Interview.

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ISBN

• 9781590174449 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1590174445 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011013384

OCLC

694832868

RCP

H - S

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