Jezebel

By: Irene Nemirovsky

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Paperback | 1 May 2012

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208 Pages

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20.3 x 13.2 x 1.6

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A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover.

In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, 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 acclaimed author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.

Industry Reviews

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

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