David Golder

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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.

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Irène Némirovsky

1903 – 1942

Irène Némirovsky (en russe : Ирина Леонидовна Немировская, Irina Leonidovna Nemirovskaïa) est une romancière russe d'expression française, née à Kiev le 11 février 1903 (24 février dans le calendrier grégorien) et morte le 19 août 1942 à Auschwitz. Auteur à succès dans la France des années 1930 mais oubliée après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle est le seul écrivain à qui le prix Renaudot ait été décerné à titre posthume, en 2004, pour son roman inachevé *Suite française.* ---------- Irène Némirovsky (Russian: Ирина Леонидовна Немировская, Irina Leonidovna Nemirovskaya) was a Russian novelist who wrote in French. She was born in Kyiv on February 11, 1903 (February 24 in the Gregor…