Irène Némirovsky’s family left Russia as refugees in 1917 and went to Finland and from there to Paris; in 1942 she died in Auschwitz. Persephone Books publishes a selection of her short stories, Dimanche and Other Stories.
17 September 2015
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Irène Némirovsky’s family left Russia as refugees in 1917 and went to Finland and from there to Paris; in 1942 she died in Auschwitz. Persephone Books publishes a selection of her short stories, Dimanche and Other Stories.