The Mirador by Élisabeth Gille has just been released in English by New York Review Books.
Here are some of the great reviews from The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Washington Post, PW and Library Journal:
An exquisite fictional autobiography—The New York Times Book Review
The Mirador approaches the ambiguity in Némirovsky’s life and work in a profound and empathetic way. Gille is not interested in defending her mother’s reputation. Instead, she sets out to live in her mother’s head.— The Nation
Few of us will forget the experience of discovering Irène Némirovsky’s powerful Suite Française and the equally powerful and disturbing details of her life. Now we can rediscover Némirovsky through this novel, a fictionalized biography written by her daughter and published [in French] in 1992, where it helped precipitate a reexamination of this remarkable author’s work. —Library Journal
We are compelled anew as Némirovsky asks through the facing mirrors of a fictionalized self-portrait once removed, “What could one say of the times I was living in, plagued by revolutions, pogroms, and interminable wars?” It is fascinating to ponder a daughter’s occupying her artist-mother as a young woman haunted by the strained relationship with her own mother—a woman self-centered to the point of passing off Irène as her younger sister.— Publishers Weekly
Gille, who spent World War II in hiding and later became a book editor in France, manages to conjure up a vivid, believable picture of her mother’s inner life as well as the tumultuous world that shaped her… [..] the book stands as a nuanced, eloquent portrait of a complicated woman. —The Washington Post
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