A dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the\nauthor ofDavid GolderandSuite FranÇaise. In a French courtroom, the\ntrial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer\nyoung, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of\nshooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the\nstand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past:\nher childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent\nrelationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final\nirrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion\nwe have come to expect from the author ofSuite FranÇaise, IrÈne\nNÉmirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her\nlost youth.

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