Jezebel
Irène Némirovsky author Sandra Smith translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:1st Jul '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the author of David Golder and Suite Francaise.
From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.
In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place.
From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.
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 Française, Irène Némirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.
Irène Némirovsky is the literary discovery of the decade * Sunday Times *
Slender, but engrossing, novel... Némirovsky's subtle twist and typically jewelled prose presents the glittering enormity of Gladys, an unsympathetic but vividly realised character who dominates this tale in a fascinating portrait of paranoid self-absorption * Financial Times *
Nemirovsky's tale of a woman on trial for shooting her young lover rings more contemporary bells than we might think at first -- Lesley McDowell * The Independent on Sunday *
Fast-paced and highly dramatic, it offers a fascinating glimpse into an inter-war world of privilege, wealth and Darwinian social combat -- Simon Shaw * New Statesman *
ISBN: 9780099520382
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 149g
208 pages