David Golder - Hardcover

Irène Némirovsky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0753179660 ISBN 13: 9780753179666

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2007

Synopsis

Malade, trahi et abandonné par les siens, David Golder, financier redoutable, pourrait accepter la ruine de sa banque. Mais pour sa fille Joyce, frivole et dépensière, sur laquelle il n'a d'ailleurs aucune illusion, le vieil homme décide de reconstruire son empire, et entame cet ultime combat avec une énergie farouche. Paru en 1929, ce roman marquait les débuts d'une jeune romancière d'origine russe, aussitôt saluée comme un écrivain de premier ordre. Elle devait mourir en 1942 à Auschwitz.

About this title

About the Author

Born in Kiev in 1903, Irène Némirovsky fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became an acclaimed novelist. She wrote over 10 novels, including an unfinished magnum opus Suite Française which was published posthumously in France in 2004 and has become an international bestseller. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Review

Praise for the first edition of David Golder:
"The work of a woman who has the strength of one of the masters like Balzac or Dostoyevsky"
–New York Times, 1930

"All Némirovsky’s talent is apparent in her first novel: her pitiless gaze and her generous heart ... Suite Française may take the crown, but her other works confirm that she was not simply the chronicler of June 1940, but a writer with a very broad canvas who has finally found her place in the history of literature."
–Lire

"A novelist of the very first order, perceptive to a fault and sly in her emotional restraint."
–Evening Standard

Edition details

• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753179660
• ISBN 13: 9780753179666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194