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| Genre/Form: | Autobiographical fiction Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Élisabeth Gille; Irène Némirovsky |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Élisabeth Gille; Marina Harss |
| ISBN: | 9781590174449 1590174445 |
| OCLC Number: | 694832868 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
| Notes: | Includes an interview with the author. |
| Description: | 239 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Series Title: | New York Review Books classics. |
| Other Titles: | Mirador. |
| Responsibility: | by Elisabeth Gille ; translation by Marina Harss ; afterword by Renø de Ceccatty. |
Abstract:
"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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- Gille, Élisabeth, -- 1937-1996 -- Childhood and youth.
- Némirovsky, Irène, -- 1903-1942.
- Russians -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
- Political refugees -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
- Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- France.
- Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- France -- Ethnic relations.
