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The first major biography of the author of SuiteFran?aise
The posthumous publication of Suite Fran?aise won IrèneNémirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers toher work. But the story of her own life was no less dramatic andmoving than her most powerful fiction.
With her family, she escaped Russia in 1919 and settled in Paris,where she met and married fellow Jewish émigré Michel Epstein. In1929 she published her highly acclaimed and controversial novelDavid Golder, the first of many successful books that establishedher stellar reputation. But when France fell to the Nazis, herrenown did her little good: without French citizenship, she wasforced to seek refuge in a small Burgundy village with her husbandand their two young daughters. And in July 1942 Némirovsky wasarrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died the followingmonth.
The posthumous publication of Suite Fran?aise won IrèneNémirovsky international acclaim and brought millions of readers toher work. But the story of her own life was no less dramatic andmoving than her most powerful fiction.
With her family, she escaped Russia in 1919 and settled in Paris,where she met and married fellow Jewish émigré Michel Epstein. In1929 she published her highly acclaimed and controversial novelDavid Golder, the first of many successful books that establishedher stellar reputation. But when France fell to the Nazis, herrenown did her little good: without French citizenship, she wasforced to seek refuge in a small Burgundy village with her husbandand their two young daughters. And in July 1942 Némirovsky wasarrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died the followingmonth.