Name: Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel of War and Friendship
SKU: 1976519
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Author: Gille, Elisabeth ; Coverdale, Linda
ISBN: 9781595583567

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Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel of War and Friendship

Type

Physical Book

Author

Elisabeth Gille

Translated by

Linda Coverdale

Publisher

New Press

Language

English

Pages

138

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9x14x1 cm

Weight

0.17 kg.

ISBN

1595583564

ISBN13

9781595583567

Synopsis "Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel of War and Friendship"

Irène Némirovsky's posthumous Suite Française has become a publishing phenomenon, selling more than half a million copies since its publication in 2006. As those who know it are keenly aware, Némirovsky was killed by the Nazis before she had a chance to write the last three sections of what she intended to be a five-part work. As Claire Messud wrote in Bookforum, Némirovsky's "hope in the midst of hopelessness . . . is a rare gift."As they were being deported to concentration camps, Némirovsky and her husband, like so many other German Jews, sent their two young daughters, then five and seven, to live under assumed identities--in this case in a Catholic boarding school in the south of France--which enabled them to survive the war. The younger daughter, Elisabeth Gille, became a well-known French publisher, and chronicled her wartime experiences in her own novel, Shadows of a Childhood.Originally published long before the manuscript of Suite Française was discovered, Shadows of a Childhood is now available for Némirovsky fans who want to know more about the circumstances of her death and her daughters' survival. Gille's haunting novel is a moving sequel to her mother's masterpiece and an important part of an extraordinary family's literary legacy.

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