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David Golder

By: Irene Nemirovsky
Narrated by: Bill Wallis
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Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.

In 1929, 26-year-old Irène Némirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her second 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 while his wife and beloved daughter, Joy, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz. But Golder’s security is fragile. For years he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors. Now his health is beginning to show the strain. As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, leaving him to decide which to pursue: revenge or altruism?

Available for the first time since 1930, David Golder is a page-turningly chilling and brilliant portrait of the frenzied capitalism of the 1920s and a universal parable about the mirage of wealth.

©2011 Irene Nemirovsky (P)2011 Random House Audio Go Military War & Military Fiction
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Wonderful!

Loved the reader, as his accent reminded me off my lost relations. The story of David Golda’s summer set against the backdrop of the roaring 1920’s. David Golda is a brilliant business man and his business runs in his very viens. Yet, he supports his hideous wife, her lover and the social climbers she entertains. IR really brings all the characters to life, you can almost smell the flowers. His daughter Joyce……I’m not so sure! Such a good read!

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