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Imbuida de un claro componente autobiográfico, Suite francesa se inicia en París los días previos a la invasión alemana, en un clima de incertidumbre e incredulidad. Enseguida, tras las primeras bombas, miles de familias se lanzan a las carreteras en coche, en bicicleta o a pie.

"Tempête en juin" décrit par le menu l'Exode, et ce traumatisme qui arracha le masque social de bien des gens, dévoilant veulerie ou courage, égoïsme ou générosité. Dans "Dolce", l'auteur dissèque le calme apparent régnant dans la petite ville de Bussy, l'ambigüité des liens qui lient sa population et les occupants, puis les tensions nées des premières actions de la Résistance.

By the early 1940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris.

Best known for her posthumously published novel Suite française, Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. Her family fled the Russian Revolution for Paris, where she found fame as a novelist. But when the Nazis occupied France, she was arrested as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz, where she died aged just 39. This collection includes four of her best works, dramatised for radio with a full cast.

With elegant simplicity and unswerving honesty, Irene Nemirovsky chronicles the brutalizing effects of war on three ordinary Parisian families whose lives intertwine, spanning the years between 1912 and 1941. What starts out as a glorious campaign in 1914, full of optimistic declarations of France's greatness, soon turns to shame and cynicism as the conflict drags on. Parisians, suffering from cold and hunger, seem unable or unwilling to comprehend the horrors of the trenches.

In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irène Némirovsky’s gripping and heartbreaking novel. Némirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Nazi regime but she left behind her this exceptional masterpiece. In Suite Française she conjures up a vivid cast of wonderful characters who find themselves thrown together in ways they never expected.

La profunda discordancia entre la indiferente placidez de la vida burguesa y el dramático devenir de los acontecimientos -que sería el leitmotiv de su siguiente y última obra, la excepcional Suite francesa-, es el hilo conductor del que Némirovsky se sirve para narrar las vicisitudes de una familia burguesa del norte de Francia sobre el trasfondo de un período especialmente convulso de la historia europea que culmina con el desmoronamiento del orden social que siguió a la ocupación alemana.

Dans la taverne d'un port de la mer Noire, Ismaël, un petit garçon juif doté d'une voix et d'un sens de la poésie hors du commun, chante les douleurs et les joies des truands, des prostituées, de tous les misérables qui se retrouvent dans le bouge. Un soir, un poète déchu et ivrogne, qui fait couler à flots l'or et la vodka, écoute le gamin et en est subjugué. Il l'offre à sa maîtresse, riche veuve désœuvrée, qui s'entiche de l'enfant.

At the center of the tale is Silvio: in his younger years he fled the boredom of the village and made a life of travel and adventure. Now he's returned, living in a farmer's hovel in the middle of the woods, and, much to his family's chagrin, perfectly content with his solitude.

A continuation of the popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed 20th-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.

A collection of never-before-translated stories by the best-selling author of Suite Française, this is a gorgeous, gemlike volume with the same attention to detail that won Irène Némirovsky so many fans. Written between 1934 and 1942, these 10 stories mine the same terrain as her best-selling novels.

Eine der größten literarischen Wiederentdeckungen der letzten Jahre. Sommer 1940: Die deutsche Armee steht vor Paris. Voller Panik packen die Menschen ihre letzten Habseligkeiten zusammen und fliehen. Angesichts der existentiellen Bedrohung zeigen sie ihren wahren Charakter.

Irene Nemirovsky was arrested soon after completing the second part of Suite Francaise. Ten days later, on August 17, 1942, she died of typhus in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her husband, Michel, perished in a gas chamber on November 6. Their daughters, Denise and Elizabeth, survived, hidden in safe houses and convents, carrying a suitcase packed with clothes, photographs, and their mother's manuscript written in tiny letters to save paper.

Contient les 12 nouvelles suivantes : "Film parlé", "Echo", "Magie", "En raison des circonstances", "Les cartes", "La peur", "L'inconnue", "La voleuse", "Les revenants", "L'ami et la femme", "La grande allée", "Les vierges". Douze portraits de femmes, toutes différents mais écrits avec talent et finesse. Irène Némirovsky est une romancière russe d'expression française, morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz.

Récemment passés de la gêne à l'opulence, M. et Mme Kampf décident de donner un bal. Leur fille Antoinette, qui vient d'avoir quatorze ans, rêverait d'y assister. Mais Mme Kampf, peu soucieuse de présenter à ses admirateurs une fille déjà si grande, oppose un refus formel. Antoinette ne préméditera pas sa vengeance : elle l'accomplira d'un geste, dans un état second... Elle sera terrible.

Antoinette Kampf ha quindici anni e una madre nevrotica e indifferente, preoccupata più di conquistarsi un posto nella società dorata della Parigi della Belle Époque - da vera parvenue - piuttosto che dei malesseri esistenziali della figlia adolescente. Antoinette vendicherà il suo amore filiale respinto con una decisione improvvisa e fatale. Un romanzo breve semplicemente perfetto!

Todo ocurre en una tranquila villa de provincias francesa, a principios de los años treinta. Silvio, el narrador, ha dilapidado su fortuna recorriendo mundo. A los sesenta años, sin mujer ni hijos, sólo le queda esperar la muerte mientras se dedica a observar la comedia humana en este rincón de Francia donde, aparentemente, nunca sucede nada. Un día, sin embargo, una muerte trágica quiebra la placidez de esa sociedad cerrada y hierática.

Obra cumbre de Irène Némirovsky y baluarte literario contra el fanatismo y la intolerancia, Suite francesa cautivó al mundo con su retrato inmisericorde de la sociedad francesa de entreguerras. En Los fuegos de otoño, Némirovsky compone de nuevo un sensacional fresco narrativo delenvilecimiento de la burguesía parisina durante ese período vertiginoso. Escrita en la primavera de 1942, al mismo tiempo que Suite francesa y pocos meses antes de la muerte de la autora, y publicada a título póstumo en 1957, Los fuegos de otoño sobrevivió milagrosamente a los estragos del nazismo.

Nel 1929, il manoscritto fu presentato anonimo, e, letto dall’editore tutto d’un fiato, ne fu rintracciato l’autore, che sorprendentmente, si rivelò essere una giovane donna, elegante, figlia dell’alta borghesia russa rifugiatasi a Parigi dopo la rivoluzione. David Golder fu elogiato all’unanimità dalla critica, sia per il tema difficile che per la prosa pura e elegante. Golder è l’archetipo dell’ebreo povero che fa fortuna, e, dopo aver accumulato denaro e simboli di benessere sociale si trova, alla fine della vita “'soli come cani, così come si è vissuti'".

Pierre 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.