The mirador : dreamed memories of Irène Némirovsky by her daughter - Gille, Élisabeth, 1937-1996; Harss, Marina (New York : New York Review Books, 2011)
"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.
PART I: Irene Nemirovsky -- November, 1929 -- PART II: Irene Nemirovsky -- June, 1942 -- Acknowledgements. Notes. Afterword. Elisabeth Gille and Rene de Ceccatty: An Interview.
Translated from the French.
Includes an interview with the author.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226).
committed to retain
Keywords: Gille, Élisabeth, -- 1937-1996 -- Childhood and youth; Némirovsky, Irène, -- 1903-1942; Russians -- France -- Paris -- Biography; Political refugees -- France -- Paris -- Biography; Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography; World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- France; Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; France -- Ethnic relations; Autobiographical fiction; Autobiographical fiction; 1900-1999