Bibliograph

The mirador, dreamed memories of Irène Némirovsky by her daughter, Elisabeth Gille ; translated from the French by Marina Harss ; afterword by René de Ceccatty

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The mirador, dreamed memories of Irène Némirovsky by her daughter, Elisabeth Gille ; translated from the French by Marina Harss ; afterword by René de Ceccatty

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226)

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The mirador

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

694832868

Responsibility statement

Elisabeth Gille ; translated from the French by Marina Harss ; afterword by René de Ceccatty

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Sub title

dreamed memories of Irène Némirovsky by her daughter

Summary

"Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky , a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her mother's memoirs...The Mirador is a haunted and haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love"--P. [4] of cover

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