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The Courilof affair / Irène Némirovsky ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith.
Summary:
Revolutionary Léon M is given the task of assassinating Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the Russian Minister of Education, so he poses as the man's physician in order to infiltrate his household. Once there, he learns more about the man he is assigned to kill.
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- ISBN: 067697967X
- ISBN: 9780676979671 (pbk.) :
- Physical Description: 172 p. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Vintage Canada ed.
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Vintage Canada, 2008, c2007, c1933.
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- General Note:
- Originally published: Great Britain : Chatto & Windus, 2007.Translation of: L'affaire Courilof, c1933.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime, as well as the posthumous Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. The first French publication of Fire in the Blood, by the publishers who discovered and published Suite Française, is in March 2007.