David Golder

Irne Nmirovsky, Patrick Marnham

ISBN 10: 0099493969 / ISBN 13: 9780099493969

Published by Random House, 2007

About this Item

159 pages. Cover worn. From the author of the bestselling Suite Franaise. Translated by Sandra Smi th, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irne Nmirovs ky 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 t o her extraordinary final novel Suite Franaise and her death at Auschwitz. Yet t he clues are there in this astonishingly mature story of an elderly Jewish busin essman who has sold his soul. Golder is a superb creation. Born into poverty o n the Black Sea, he has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartm ent while his wife and beloved daughter, Joyce`, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his bus iness interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is beginning to show the strain. As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, leaving him to decide which to pursue: revenge or altruism? Available for the first time s ince 1930, David Golder is a page-turningly chilling and brilliant portrait of t he frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: David Golder
• Publisher: Random House
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099493969
• ISBN 13: 9780099493969
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise 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. Born into poverty on the Black Sea, he has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment while his wife and beloved daughter, Joy, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is beginning to show the strain. As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, leaving him to decide which to pursue: revenge or altruism? Available for the first time since 1930, David Golder is a page-turningly chilling and brilliant portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth.

About the Author

Irene Nemirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Francaise and Fire in the Blood. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.