Jezebel
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099520382
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99

Jezebel

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A dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the author of David Golder and Suite Française.

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.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9780099520382
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

portrait photo of Irène Némirovsky

Also by Irène Némirovsky

The Fires of Autumn
The Misunderstanding
The Wine of Solitude
The Dogs and the Wolves
Fire in the Blood
The Courilof Affair
All Our Worldly Goods
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Praise for Jezebel

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

Irène Némirovsky is the literary discovery of the decade

Sunday Times