Irene Nemirovsky, Author, Bridget Patterson, Translator, trans. from the French by Bridget Patterson. Vintage $15 (293p) ISBN 978-0-307-47636-4 Ten luminous and newly translated stories by Némirovsky ...

It gathers four early novels by Russian-French writer Irène Némirovsky, who died at 39 in Auschwitz during World War II and whose unfinished novel “Suite Française” — written on the run from the Nazis ...

Ditlevsen is often called the great national poet of Denmark and is well known in Europe, but you don’t hear her discussed in the U.S. as much as she should be. Why is that? I think in America we tend ...

When the Ukrainian-born French novelist Irène Némirovsky was deported from her adopted country to be murdered at Auschwitz in 1942, she was an up-and-coming novelist who had published a half dozen or ...

When we first meet Hélène Karol, she is an 8-year-old girl growing up in Ukraine. She dislikes, and is disliked by, her mother, an exceedingly unhappy member of the morally and financially bankrupt ...

"I am going on a journey," Irene Nemirovsky told her two young daughters on July 13, 1942, before leaving their village with French gendarmes. By then, Nemirovsky, a writer and a Jew, had no illusions ...

Before Denise Epstein went into hiding during World War II, her father put her in charge of two valuables: a suitcase filled with her mother's notes and her little sister. Epstein's mother, Irene ...

‘All Our Worldly Goods” opens with fireworks. Two families, the Hardelots and the Florents, gather on a Normandy beach to watch a pyrotechnical display light up the late-summer sky. Indifferent to ...

Before the Nazis came to power, Irene Némirovsky was a celebrated writer living in France. The Russian-born Jew—her family had fled Kiev in the wake of the Revolution—wrote in French and published her ...

The Frenchman was urgent. Still youngish, maybe 45, he had moved to New York City to catch his breath after The Frenchman was urgent. Still youngish, maybe 45, he had moved to New York City to catch ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Universal Pictures has acquired screen rights to the Irene Nemirovsky book “Suite Francaise” and set Ronald Harwood to adapt the tale about the occupation of France by German troops. Kathleen Kennedy ...