{"product_id":"the-misunderstanding-paperback-by-irene-nemirovsky-translated-by-sandra-smith","title":"The Misunderstanding Paperback by Irène Némirovsky; Translated by Sandra Smith","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Books\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2013-08-05)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e176\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780099563846\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e133.25\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e7.77 x 5.09 x 0.46\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war. He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays. There he becomes infatuated by a beautiful, bored young woman, Denise, whose rich husband is often away on business. Intoxicated by summer nights and Yves’ intensity, Denise falls passionately in love, before the idyll has to end and Yves must return to his mundane office job. In the mournful Paris autumn their love founders on mutual misunderstanding and Denise is driven mad with desire and jealous suspicion until, acting on her sophisticated mother’s advice, she takes action...which she may regret forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eIrène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of \u003ci\u003eDavid Golder\u003c\/i\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eAll Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves \u003c\/i\u003eand other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFire in the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irène Némirovsky available in English, a new translation of Camus's \u003ci\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Inseparable \u003c\/i\u003eby Simone de Beauvoir (Ecco Press, USA), among many others. Her translation of Nemirovsky's \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e won the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of \u003ci\u003eBut You Did Not Come Back\u003c\/i\u003e by Marceline Loridan-Ivens won The National Jewish Book Award. 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