Title: The 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.
Subjects: French Authors, Russians, Intellectual life, Political refugees, Ethnic relations, World War, 1939-1945, Childhood and youth, Biography, Jews, Russians, foreign countries, Authors, french, World war, 1939-1945, jews, World war, 1939-1945, france, Paris (france), intellectual life, France, ethnic relations, France, biography, Authors, biography
Places: Paris, Paris (France), France
People: Elisabeth Gille (1937-), Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942)
Time periods: 20th century