Jezebel

Praise for Irene Nemirovsky and Jezebel:

"Engrossing. . . . A fascinating portrait of paranoid self-absorption." --Financial Times

"Fast-paced and highly dramatic, Jezebel offers a fascinating glimpse into an inter-war world of privilege, wealth and Darwinian social combat." --New Statesman

"Nemirovsky wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and inclusive fiction that conflict has produced." --The New York Times Book Review

"Nemirovsky's scope is like that of Tolstoy: She sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"Extraordinary. . . . Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity." --The Washington Post Book World

"Brilliant. . . . [Nemirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her." --The Nation

"Transcendent, astonishing. . . . Like Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky was unaware of neither her circumstance nor the growing probability that she might not survive. And still, she writes to us." --The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette