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All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures "Suite Francaise" and some of the themes of Nemirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. "All Our Worldly Goods", though, is complete, and exquisitely so - a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the aut ...Show more
David Golder by Irene Nemirovsky
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Fr ...Show more
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Describes about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions and the regrets of old age, about peasant communities and the way they hide their secrets. This novel is a morality tale with doubtful morals, and a story of murd ...Show more
Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 her daughters saved, and the balance had been depo ...Show more
Jezebel by Irene Nemirovsky
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, h ...Show more
Le Bal and Snow In Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Le Bal" depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society. Their daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending. But Madame Kampf is resolved not to present her ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (tr from French Sandra Smith)
36.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Sixty-two years after an emigrant Russian Jew died at Auschwitz, her unpublished work about occupied France is taking the world by storm. 'Quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book.' The Telegraph. 'A profoundly felt meditation on the nature of freedom, and the ...Show more
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irene Nemirovsky's gripping and heartbreaking novel. Nemirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Naz ...Show more
The Courilof Affair by Irene Nemirovsky
26.99 NZD
28.99 (6% off)
Category: Fiction
In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - 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 in most grandiose m ...Show more
The Dogs and the Wolves by Irene Nemirovsky
38.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This wonderful, panoramic novel goes right back to Irène Némirovsky’s roots, sweeping the reader from the Jewish quarter of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century to Paris in the twenties and thirties, and back again to eastern Europe in a snowy winter on the eve of war. At its hea ...Show more
The Fires of Autumn by Irene Nemirovsky
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The prequel to the best-selling 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. But as another war threatens, everything ...Show more
The Misunderstanding by Irene Nemirovsky
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
From the author of Suite Francaise this is a compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive love. Yves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war. He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays. Ther ...Show more