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Némirovsky, Irène

 
9780099493983: The Courilof Affair
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ISBN 10: 0099493985 ISBN 13: 9780099493983
Editorial: Vintage, 2008

Sinopsis

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.

In 1903 Léon M - the son of two Russian revolutionaries - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. The assassination, he is told, must take place in public and be carried out in the most grandiose manner possible in order to strike the imagination of the people.

Posing as his newly appointed personal physician, Léon M takes up residence with Courilof in his summer house in the Iles and awaits instructions. But over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of the man he must kill - his failing health, his troubled domestic situation and, most importantly, the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers, forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishments.

Set during a period of radical upheaval in European history, The Courliof Affair is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power, an elegy to a lost world and an unflinchingly topical cautionary tale.

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Acerca del autor

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.

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Editorial
Vintage
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0099493985
ISBN 13 
9780099493983
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
176
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9780676979671: The Courilof Affair

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  067697967X ISBN 13:  9780676979671
Editorial: Random House of Canada Ltd, 2008
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