Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Keywords: goods, worldly
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $21.28
ISBN-10: 0701182148
ISBN-13: 9780701182144

All Our Worldly Goods reads like a prequel to Suite Française, but is a perfect novel in its own right. In haunting ways, this compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Némirovsky’s great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so — a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author’s death, it is a gripping story of family life and star-crossed lovers, set in France between 1910 and 1940.Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patr

Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: francaise, suite
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1400096278
ISBN-13: 9781400096275

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.When Irène Némirov

Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Keywords: francaise, suite
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2007-04-10
List price: $21.19
ISBN-10: 0676977715
ISBN-13: 9780676977714

By the early l940s, when Ukrainian-born Irène Némirovsky began working on what would become Suite Française—the first two parts of a planned five-part novel—she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz: a month later she was dead at the age of thirty-nine. Two years earlier, living in a small village in central France—where she, her husband, and their two small daughters had fled in a vain attempt to elude the Nazis—she’d begun her novel, a luminous portrayal of a human drama in which she

Authors:Irene Nemirovsky,  Sandra Smith,
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: international, vintage, blood, fire
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2008-07-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 030738800X
ISBN-13: 9780307388001

Amazon Best of the Month, October 2007: As the Nazis advanced on France, celebrated writer Irène Némirovsky composed two final masterworks: Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. The first, smuggled out in a suitcase by her escaping daughters when Némirovsky was taken to her death at Auschwitz in 1942, surfaced more than 60 years later and restored her bestselling status. The other, two pages of which slipped out in that same suitcase, was thought lost--until biographers discovered the rest of the manuscript in papers given to Némirovsky’s editor for safekeeping. A worthy companion

Authors:Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translator) ,
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Keywords: golder, david
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $17.29
ISBN-10: 0676979459
ISBN-13: 9780676979459

In 1929, 26-year-old Irène Némirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her first novel David Golder. At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Française and her death at Auschwitz. Yet the clues are there in this astonishingly mature story of an elderly Jewish businessman who has sold his soul.Golder is a superb creation. Born into poverty on the Black Sea, he has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil. When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment w

Authors:Irene Smalls, Jon Lockard, Irene Smalls-Hector,
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Keywords: lantern, muh, jack, reen, jenny
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1996-09
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0689318758
ISBN-13: 9780689318757

One day-on all Hallow’s Eve- Sister Louisa tells Jenny the spooky story of the Jack Muh lantern, a creature with magical powers who looks for victims. The next day Jenny Reen wanders into the woods. She comes face to face with the Jack Muh lantern and his googly goggly eyes. Just as he is about to reach out and touch her Jenny Reen tries to remember the one thing that will protect her from his evil clutches. Can she remember? Or if this Halloween her last?

Author: Irene Wu
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: telecommunications, reform, china, path, uneven, invisible, hand, fist
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-10-16
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0804759626
ISBN-13: 9780804759625

From Iron Fist to Invisible Hand uses telecommunications policy as a window to examine major contradictions in China’s growth as an economic and political superpower. While China policy analysts wonder why the government occasionally restrains growth and raises prices, technologists marvel at how the telecommunications industry continues to grow enormously despite constraints and unpredictability in the market. Frustration is pervasive in the business environment, where regulations are constantly changing. This book provides six policy-focused case studies, each centered on a question w