by SandraSmith (Translator), IreneNemirovsky (Author), Sandra Smith (Translator), Irene Nemirovsky (Author)
This is from the author of the bestselling Suite Francaise. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 01 Jul 2010
ISBN 10: 0099520389
ISBN 13: 9780099520382
Book Overview: A dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the author of David Golder and Suite Francaise.