Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel of War and Friendship Originally .Irène Némirovsky’s posthumous Suite Française has become a publishing phenomenon, selling more than half a million copies since its publication in 2006. A
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| Title | : | Shadows of a Childhood: A Novel of War and Friendship |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (264 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1565843886 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 138 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1998-03-01 |
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Irène Némirovsky’s posthumous Suite Française has become a publishing phenomenon, selling more than half a million copies since its publication in 2006. As those who know it are keenly aware, Némirovsky was killed by the Nazis before she had a chance to write the last three sections of what she intended to be a five-part work. As Claire Messud wrote in Bookforum, Némirovsky’s “hope in the midst of hopelessness is a rare gift.”As they were being deported to concentration camps, Némirovsky and her husband, like so many other German Jews, sent their two young daughters, then five and seven, to live under assumed identities—in this case in a Catholic boarding school in the south of France—which enabled them to survive the war. The younger daughter, Elisabeth Gille, became a well-known French publisher, and chronicled her wartime experiences in her own novel, Shadows of a Childhood.Originally
Editorial : From Library Journal Gille was just five when her mother, Russian writer Irene Nemirovsky, was deported to Auschwitz, and the two never heard from each other again. This work is a fictionalized account of their wrenching separation and a piercing look at what it means to survive mass genocide. Told in the voice of Lea Levy, the book spans 13 years?from the Jewish child's arrival in a French convent school following her parents' arrest by the Germans to her college years at the Sorbonne. Throughout, it asks essential and timeless questions: What does it mean to witness widespread atrocity? Is evil endemic to the human condition? What is Jewish identity? Why does anti-Semitism persist? In addition, the book uses Lea's friendship with a spirited, slightly older Christian girl to explore the possibilities of healing intense childhood trauma. Gille, who died in 1996, was posthumously awarded France's prestigious Grand Prix de Lectrices in 1997 for this novel of understated grace and enormou
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