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Format:
Book
Title:
The mirador : dreamed memories of Irène Nømirovsky by her daughter
Uniform Title:
Mirador. English
ISBN:
9781590174449
Publication Information:
New York : New York Review Books, ©2011.
Physical Description:
239 pages ; 21 cm.
General Note:
Includes an interview with the author.
Contents:
PART I: Irene Nemirovsky -- November, 1929 -- PART II: Irene Nemirovsky -- June, 1942 -- Acknowledgements. Notes. Afterword. Elisabeth Gille and Rene de Ceccatty: An Interview.
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"--Page 4 of cover.
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