The mirador
Subtitle: dreamed memories of Irène Nømirovsky by her daughter
By: by Elisabeth Gille ; translation by Marina Harss ; afterword by Renø de Ceccatty
Contributors: Harss, Marina
Series: New York review books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781590174449
Subjects: French Authors; Russians; Intellectual life; Political refugees; Ethnic relations; World War, 1939-1945; Childhood and youth; Biography; Jews
Work titles: Mirador
Description: "Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky , a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger. It was to come to terms with that stranger that Gille wrote, in The Mirador, her mother's memoirs...The Mirador is a haunted and haunting book, an unflinching reckoning with the tragic past, and a triumph not only of the imagination but of love"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes an interview with the author.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226).

Translated from the French.