David Golder
By: Irène Némirovsky ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith ; with an introduction by Patrick Marnham
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS; ISIS Publishing; ISIS Large Print Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780753179666; 9780753179673
Subjects: Jewish capitalists and financiers; Fiction; Family relationships; Large type books
Description: Born into poverty on the Black Sea, David Golder has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. As he works in his magnificent Parisian apartment, his wife and beloved daughter, Joyce, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder's security is fragile. For years he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is beginning to show the strain. As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, leaving him to decide which to pursue: revenge or altruism?A page-turningly chilling and brilliant portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth.
Notes: Originally published: Éditions Bernard Grasset, 1929.