| Description |
239 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
New York review books classics
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| Note |
Includes an interview with the author. |
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"This is a New York Review book" -- T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226). |
| Summary |
Elisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky, a once popular novelist, a Russian emigre from an immensly rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her mother's memoirs. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Gille, Élisabeth, 1937-1996 -- Childhood and youth.
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Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942.
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Russians -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
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Political refugees -- France -- Paris -- Biography.
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Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- France.
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Paris (France) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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France -- Ethnic relations.
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| Added Author |
Harss, Marina.
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| Added Title |
Mirador. English
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| ISBN |
9781590174449 paperback alkaline paper |
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1590174445 paperback alkaline paper |
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