Jezebel (Vintage International) - Tapa blanda

Praise for Irene Nemirovsky and Jezebel:

"Engrossing. . . . A fascinating portrait of paranoid self-absorption."
--Financial Times

"Fast-paced and highly dramatic, Jezebel offers a fascinating glimpse into an inter-war world of privilege, wealth and Darwinian social combat."
--New Statesman

"Nemirovsky wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and inclusive fiction that conflict has produced."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Nemirovsky's scope is like that of Tolstoy: She sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest."
--O, The Oprah Magazine

"Extraordinary. . . . Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity."
--The Washington Post Book World

"Brilliant. . . . [Nemirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her."
--The Nation

"Transcendent, astonishing. . . . Like Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky was unaware of neither her circumstance nor the growing probability that she might not survive. And still, she writes to us."
--The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

As she sits on the stand, accused of murdering her much-younger lover, aging French actress Gladys Eysenach remembers pieces of her tumultuous past. By the author of All Our Worldly Goods. Original.