"Stunning . . . [Némirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisive fiction that conflict has produced."
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New York Times Book Review "Némirovsky's scope is like that of Tolstoy: she sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest."
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O, The Oprah Magazine "Extraordinary . . . Némirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity."
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The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant . . . [Némirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her."
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The Nation [Némirovsky had] an alert eye for self-deceit, a tender regard for the natural world, and a forlorn gift for describing the crumbling, sliding descent of an entire society into catastrophic disorder."
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London Review of Books "Transcendent, astonishing . . . Like Anne Frank, Irène Némirovsky was unaware . . . that she might not survive. And still, she writes to us."
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "A novelist of the very first order, perceptive and sly in her emotional restraint."
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Evening Standard (London)