Name: The Pawn on the Chessboard (in English)
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Author: Némirovsky, Irène
ISBN: 9781481077095

portada The Pawn on the Chessboard (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Irène Némirovsky

Publisher

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 12.7 x 1.1 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN13

9781481077095

Synopsis "The Pawn on the Chessboard (in English)"

Irène NémirovskyLe Pion sur l'échiquierSet in France during the economic crisis of the nineteen-thirties, Le Pion sur l'échiquier is an unflinching portrait of a man for whom life has lost all meaning. Son of a dying steel magnate whose investments crashed, Christophe Bohun works in an International News Agency and lives together with his dying father, wife, mistress and son, in dilapidated grandeur. At a time of external hardship, he appears to have everything and value nothing. Where his father was driven by a ruthless passion for high finance and his teenage son is eaten up with suppressed anger, Némirovsky presents us with an anti-hero whose bleak interior life is an object lesson in alienation and emotional numbness.

Irène Némirovsky

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Irène Némirovsky (Kiev, 11 de febrero de 1903-campo de concentración de Auschwitz, 17 de agosto de 1942) fue una escritora nacida en el Imperio Ruso que vivió en Francia desde su juventud y escribió en francés. Fue deportada a Alemania bajo leyes raciales por su origen judío, aunque se había convertido al catolicismo en 1939, y murió en Auschwitz a los 39 años.

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