NÉMIROVSKY, IRÈNE
A compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive love
Yves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war. He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays. There he becomes infatuated by a beautiful, bored young woman, Denise, whose rich husband is often away on business. Intoxicated by summer nights and Yves intensity, Denise falls passionately in love, before the idyll has to end and Yves must return to his mundane office job. In the mournful Paris autumn their love founders on mutual misunderstanding and Denise is driven mad with desire and jealous suspicion until, acting on her sophisticated mothers advice, she takes action...which she may regret forever.
Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942)nascuda a Kíev al si d'una família jueva, és autora, entre d'altres, de David Golder (1929), obra que li va donar renom en el panorama de les lletres franceses. Arran de l?ocupació alemanya, es va refugiar
en un poble de Morvan, però va ser detinguda pels gendarmes francesos, i més tard assassinada a Auschwitz, l'estiu de 1942. Suite francesa va ser publicada per La Magrana amb gran èxit de crítica i de públic.
