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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.
Van Pelt Library DC718.R8 G5513 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gille, Élisabeth, 1937-1996.
- Series:
- New York Review Books classics
- Standardized Title:
- Mirador. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Gille, Élisabeth, 1937-1996--Childhood and youth.
- Gille, Élisabeth.
- Gille, Élisabeth, 1937-1996.
- Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942.
- Némirovsky, Irène.
- Russians--France--Paris--Biography.
- Russians.
- Political refugees.
- France--Paris.
- Political refugees--France--Paris--Biography.
- Authors, French--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, French.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--France.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Paris (France).
- France--Ethnic relations.
- France.
- Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fictional autobiographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York Review Books, [2011]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes an interview with the author.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226).
- ISBN:
- 9781590174449
- 1590174445
- OCLC:
- 694832868
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