Irène Némirovsky (5 kníh)
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Irène Némirovsky All Our Worldly Goods ENIn 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 author's death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop…
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Irène Némirovsky All Our Worldly Goods ENPierre and Agnès marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up with Némirovsky’s characteristically sly humour and clear-eyed compassion. Full of drama and heartbreak, telling…
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Irène Némirovsky Francúzska suitaTragický osud Irène Némirovskej anezvyčajný údel jej posledného nedokončeného románu Francúzska suita právom budí pozornosť. No treba povedať, že ani keby nebolo týchto okolností, román samotný je výnimočným dielom, ktoré prebudí v človeku širokú paletu citov a pocitov. Najprv ho šokujú reakcie ľudí rozličných spoločenských vrstiev – iste, vypäté situácie prinášajú nečakané, no možno prirodzené odozvy, dojmú ho…
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Irène Némirovsky Jezebel ENA dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the author of David Golder and Suite Française
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Irène Némirovsky The Dogs and the Wolves ENAda 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 very different world. Eventually, in search of a brighter future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes from the world she has left behind. Harry Sinner also comes to Paris to mingle in exclusive circles,…
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