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David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair

Irene Nemirovsky; Sandra Smith; Claire Messud
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
 9780307267085
0-307-26708-3

Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irne Nmirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Franaise. But Suite Franaise was only the coda to the brief yet remarkably prolific.

career of this nearly forgotten, magnificent novelist. Here in one volume are four of Nmirovskys other novelsall of them newly translated by the award-winning Sandra Smith, and all, except DAVID GOLDER, available in English for the first time.DAVID GOLDER is the novel that established Nirovskys reputation in France in 1929 when she was twenty-six. It is a novel about greed and lonliness, the story of a self-made business man, once wealthy, now suffering a breakdown as he nears the lonely end of his life. THE COURILOF AFFAIR tells the story of a Russian revolutionary living out his last daysand his recollections of his first infamous assassination. Also included are two short, gemlike novels: THE BALL, a pointed exploration of adolescence and the obsession with status among the bourgeoisie; and SNOW IN AUTUMN, an evocative tale of White Russian migrs in Paris after the Russian Revolution.Introduced by celebrated novelist Claire Messud, this collection of four spellbinding novels offers the same storytelling mastery, powerful clarity of language, and empathic grasp of human behavior that would give shape to Suite Franaise.