Irène Némirovsky





Irène Némirovsky

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born
February 11, 1903 in Kiev, Ukraine

died
August 17, 1942

gender
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Irène Némirovsky (born February 11, 1903, Kiev, died August 17, 1942, Auschwitz, Poland) was a Jewish novelist and biographer born in the Ukraine, who lived and worked in France.



Average rating: 3.73 · 26,868 ratings · 4,627 reviews · 37 distinct works
Suite Française
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 23,209 ratings — published 2004 — 63 editions
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Fire in the Blood
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 1,702 ratings — published 2007 — 29 editions
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All Our Worldly Goods
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1947 — 9 editions
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David Golder
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 281 ratings — published 1929 — 16 editions
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David Golder, The Ball, Sno...
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Dimanche and other stories
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 1930 — 16 editions
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Le Bal; And, Snow in Autumn
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 1930 — 2 editions
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Jezebel
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1936 — 7 editions
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The Dogs and the Wolves
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1940 — 11 editions
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More books by Irène Némirovsky…
“Adieu," he said, "this is goodbye. I'll never forget you, never."
She stood silent. He looked at her and saw her eyes full of tears. He turned away.
At this moment she wasn't ashamed of loving him, because her physical desire had gone and all she felt towards him now was pity and a profound, almost maternal tenderness. She forced herself to smile. "Like the Chinese mother who sent her son off to war telling him to be careful 'because war has its dangers,' I'm asking you, if you have any feelings for me, to be as careful as possible with your life."
Because it is precious to you?" he asked nervously.
Yes. Because it is precious to me.”
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

“But what is certain is that in five, ten or twenty years, this problem unique to our time, according to him, will no longer exist, it will be replaced by others...Yet this music, the sound of this rain on the windows, the great mournful creaking of the cedar tree in the garden outside, this moment, so tender, so strange in the middle of war, this will never change, not this, this is forever.”
Irène Némirovsky, Suite Française

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