Volume 53, Number 12 · July 13, 2006
After the Fall
By Gabriele Annan
Suite Française
by Irène Némirovsky, translated from the French by Sandra Smith
Knopf, 395 pp., $25.00
Irène Némirovsky was born in 1903 into a rich Jewish banking family in Kiev. They fled to Paris during the revolution, and she was educated in French schools and at the Sorbonne. By the start of World War II, she had been to a great many parties and particularly balls because she adored dancing. She had married another Jewish-Ukrainian refugee—a banker called Michel Epstein—and produced two little girls and nine very successful novels.
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