Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris she began to write and swiftly achieved success with DAVID GOLDER, which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than 60 years later, SUITE FRANCAISE, was published posthumously, for the first time, in 2006.

Books by Irene Nemirovsky

Jezebel

by Irene Nemirovsky - Fiction

In a French courtroom, Gladys Eysenach is on trial for shooting dead her much younger lover. As witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past, recalling a series of events that reveal the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.

All Our Worldly Goods

by Irene Nemirovsky - Fiction, Literary Fiction

Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud that cascades down the generations.

Fire in the Blood

by Irene Nemirovsky