David Golder

Nemirovsky, Irene, Translated By Sandra Smith

ISBN 10: 070118129X / ISBN 13: 9780701181291

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2007

About this Item

A brilliant novel, long buried on dusty shelves following the author's death in Asuchwitz in 1942.

Seller Inventory # DDR2724

Bibliographic Details

• Title: David Golder
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 070118129X
• ISBN 13: 9780701181291
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Thus
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Fiction
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

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. 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 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

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.