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Best known for her posthumously published novel Suite française, Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. Her family fled the Russian Revolution for Paris, where she found fame as a novelist. But when the Nazis occupied France, she was arrested as a Jew and sent to Auschwitz, where she died aged just 39. This collection includes four of her best works, dramatised for radio with a full cast.

In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation are brilliantly explored in Irène Némirovsky’s gripping and heartbreaking novel. Némirovsky herself was a tragic victim of the Nazi regime but she left behind her this exceptional masterpiece. In Suite Française she conjures up a vivid cast of wonderful characters who find themselves thrown together in ways they never expected.

"Tempête en juin" décrit par le menu l'Exode, et ce traumatisme qui arracha le masque social de bien des gens, dévoilant veulerie ou courage, égoïsme ou générosité. Dans "Dolce", l'auteur dissèque le calme apparent régnant dans la petite ville de Bussy, l'ambigüité des liens qui lient sa population et les occupants, puis les tensions nées des premières actions de la Résistance.

Pierre and Agnès marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up with Némirovsky's characteristically sly humour and clear-eyed compassion.

With elegant simplicity and unswerving honesty, Irene Nemirovsky chronicles the brutalizing effects of war on three ordinary Parisian families whose lives intertwine, spanning the years between 1912 and 1941. What starts out as a glorious campaign in 1914, full of optimistic declarations of France's greatness, soon turns to shame and cynicism as the conflict drags on. Parisians, suffering from cold and hunger, seem unable or unwilling to comprehend the horrors of the trenches.

Récemment passés de la gêne à l'opulence, M. et Mme Kampf décident de donner un bal. Leur fille Antoinette, qui vient d'avoir quatorze ans, rêverait d'y assister. Mais Mme Kampf, peu soucieuse de présenter à ses admirateurs une fille déjà si grande, oppose un refus formel. Antoinette ne préméditera pas sa vengeance : elle l'accomplira d'un geste, dans un état second... Elle sera terrible.

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2007.
In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. She did not live to see her ambition fulfilled, or to know that 65 years later, Suite Française would be published for the first time, and hailed as a masterpiece.

An old man looks back on a chequered life, concealing truths he will not reveal until the end. Fire in the Blood starts quietly, lyrically, but then races away with narrative twists and surprise revelations. A young man, newly married, is found drowned in the mill stream; an old man is more concerned about the repayment of a debt than with his young wife; a young woman asks Silvio to plead her case; no-one is quite as they seem.

Imbuida de un claro componente autobiográfico, Suite francesa se inicia en París los días previos a la invasión alemana, en un clima de incertidumbre e incredulidad. Enseguida, tras las primeras bombas, miles de familias se lanzan a las carreteras en coche, en bicicleta o a pie.

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.In 1929, 26-year-old Irène Némirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Française and her death at Auschwitz. Yet the clues are there in this astonishingly mature story of an elderly Jewish businessman who has sold his soul.Golder is a superb creation.

A continuation of the popular Very Christmas Series, this collection brings together the best French Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed 20th-century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.

Antoinette Kampf ha quindici anni e una madre nevrotica e indifferente, preoccupata più di conquistarsi un posto nella società dorata della Parigi della Belle Époque - da vera parvenue - piuttosto che dei malesseri esistenziali della figlia adolescente. Antoinette vendicherà il suo amore filiale respinto con una decisione improvvisa e fatale. Un romanzo breve semplicemente perfetto!

Giugno 1940. I nazisti occupano Parigi e gli abitanti fuggono verso le campagne. Irène Némirovsky era tra loro e in questo romanzo incompiuto ha saputo raccontare la gioia nascosta sotto la tragedia della vita: le famiglie Pèricand e Michaud, Lucile Angellier e Bruno von Falk, sono alcuni dei memorabili personaggi di una delle più belle sinfonie che la letteratura abbia composto.

Dans la taverne d'un port de la mer Noire, Ismaël, un petit garçon juif doté d'une voix et d'un sens de la poésie hors du commun, chante les douleurs et les joies des truands, des prostituées, de tous les misérables qui se retrouvent dans le bouge. Un soir, un poète déchu et ivrogne, qui fait couler à flots l'or et la vodka, écoute le gamin et en est subjugué. Il l'offre à sa maîtresse, riche veuve désœuvrée, qui s'entiche de l'enfant.

Eine der größten literarischen Wiederentdeckungen der letzten Jahre. Sommer 1940: Die deutsche Armee steht vor Paris. Voller Panik packen die Menschen ihre letzten Habseligkeiten zusammen und fliehen. Angesichts der existentiellen Bedrohung zeigen sie ihren wahren Charakter.

È una calda sera di giugno del 1940 quando a Parigi viene dato l'annuncio dell'imminente invasione nazista. Il panico si diffonde, la popolazione si organizza per fuggire, ognuna cerca di portare con sé le cose più care. La mattina seguente inizia l'esodo mentre dal cielo continuano a piovere bombe. Il tempo si arresta, il futuro fa troppa paura. La Francia viene occupata. I tedeschi hanno vinto.

En 1929 publicó, con gran éxito de crítica, su primera novela. En 1930, con la publicación de El baile, Irène Némirovsky era una escritora en lengua francesa reconocida en la sociedad francesa; sin embargo, el gobierno francés de Vichy, rechazó su petición de nacionalización en 1938, en una actitud de antisemitismo.

Contient les 12 nouvelles suivantes : "Film parlé", "Echo", "Magie", "En raison des circonstances", "Les cartes", "La peur", "L'inconnue", "La voleuse", "Les revenants", "L'ami et la femme", "La grande allée", "Les vierges". Douze portraits de femmes, toutes différents mais écrits avec talent et finesse. Irène Némirovsky est une romancière russe d'expression française, morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz.

Hungrig nach dem Leben: Finnland, im Winter 1917/18. Aino versteckt auf dem Dachboden ihren Bruder Yvar, ohne dass ihr Ehemann davon weiß...

Satt, selbstzufrieden und in der wohligen Gewissheit, dass sich nie etwas ändern wird: Die Fabrikantenfamilie Hardelot...