Irène Némirovsky
The Fires of Autumn
In 1912, a comfortable middle-class Parisian family, widowed Adolphe, his 15-year-old daughter Thérèse and his mother-in-law, sit down to Sunday…
Jezebel
In 1930s Paris, beautiful socialite Gladys Eysenach is accused of murdering her 20-year-old lover. The story begins with Eysenach’s trial…
All Our Worldly Goods: A Novel of Love Between the Wars
Russian-born writer Irène Némirovsky, who escaped the Communists only to be killed by the Nazis for her Jewish heritage, was…
The Wine of Solitude
First published in France in 1935 yet only available in English since 2011, The Wine of Solitude is the most…
The Dogs and the Wolves
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a Jewish banker. In 1918, the family fled the…
Suite Française
Editors' choice
Suite Française, an unfinished five-part epic that boldly illustrates the effect of the WWII German occupation on the ordinary people…
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