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lisabeth Gille (1937-1996) was born in Paris, the daughter of Michel Epstein, a banker, and of the novelist Ir ne Nemirovsky. In 1942, both parents were deported to Auschwitz, where they died, but Gille and her older sister, Denise, lived out the duration of World War II in hiding. Gille worked for many years as an editor and translator, especially of science fiction, and she was over fifty when her first book, The Mirador, appeared and was immediately recognized as a major achievement. Before her death she also published Le Crabe sur la banquette arri re (The Crab in the Backseat), a mordantly funny examination of people's responses to her battle with cancer, and a short novel that reflects her and her sister's life in the years after their parents' disappearance, Un paysage de cendres, translated into English as Shadows of a Childhood. Marina Harss is a translator and dance writer living in New York City. Her recent translations include Mariolina Venezia's Been Here a Thousand Years, Alberto Moravia's Conjugal Love, Pier Paolo Pasolini's Stories from the City of God, and Dino Buzzati's Poem Strip (NYRB Classics). Rene de Ceccatty is a French novelist, playwright, and critic. His most recent book is a study of Giacomo Leopardi.
Gille's two deamed memories combine to create a tender, moving portrait of the mother she had to find through her own imagination. Sunday Times Gille captures her mother's contradictions in prose worthy of her. Scottish Sunday Herald Her [Gille's] crystalline prose resembles Nemirovsky's work to a startling degree, though there is a harshness, even cruelty, about Nemirovsky's work that is absent here. And something else: Gille was a talented writer and her tender, melancholy book stands on its own merits. But her mother was a genius. Sunday Telegraph This is a wonderful book, dignified and intelligent; eloquent if restrained, it showshow history happens and how, at its most extreme, it shapes an individual's fate. Irish Times A lively, elegantly written portrait of a woman who lived and wrote through tumultous times. TLS
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