Irene Nemirovsky Books
The Courilof Affair
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 R...
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The Dogs and the Wolves
Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a ver...
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Fire in the Blood
"An old man looks back on a chequered life with secret regrets, concealing a truth he will not reveal until the end. Fire in the Blood is a small and beautiful chamber piece which starts quietly, l...
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The misunderstanding
Yves Harteloup, scarred by war, is a disappointed young man who returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye. He becomes infatuated by the beautiful, bored, Denise, wh...
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David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair
Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irène Némirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite Française. But Suite Française was only the coda to the brief yet rema...
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