The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her

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The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter
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Ã‰lisabeth 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, IrÃ¨ne NÃ©mirovsky, a once popular novelist, a Russian Ã©migrÃ© from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didnâ€™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.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her motherâ€™s memoirs. The first part of the book, dated 1929, the year David Golder made NÃ©mirovsky famous, takes us back to her difficult childhood in Kiev and St. Petersburg. Her father is doting, her mother a beautiful monster, while Irene herself is bookish and self-absorbed. There are pogroms and riots, parties and excursions, then revolution, from which the family flees to France, a country of â€œmoderation, freedom, and generosity,â€ where at last she is happy.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Some thirteen years later IrÃ¨ne picks up her pen again. Everything has changed. Abandoned by friends and colleagues, she lives in the countryside and waits for the knock on the door. Written a decade before the publication of Suite FranÃ§aise made IrÃ¨ne NÃ©mirovsky famous once more (something Gille did not live to see), The Mirador is a haunted and a haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-09-06
UnitCount 1
Format Bargain Price
EANs 9781590174449

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2011-09-06
UnitCount	1
Format	Bargain Price
EANs	9781590174449

The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter

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