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David Golder - Irène Némirovsky Irene Nemirovsky's classic novel of ruthlessness and ambition, love and money, translated by Sandra Smith and adapted for radio by Ellen Dryden. Stark and pitiless it is too.Blurb - David Golder is a remarkable portrait of a man who is something like a monster, but whose killer instinct in business is based not in self-interest but in the almost pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does not care for him. Nemirovsky was 26 when David Golder was published in 1929, and had made the same journey from a Ukrainian/Jewish background to France and wealth as her protagonist. The novel was a huge and immediate success .A film followed in 1930 but this is the first adaptation of the novel the Nemirovsky estate have allowed since. Irene Nemirovsky died in Auschwitz in 1942. She was 39.David Golder..............David SuchetNemirovsky...............Anna FrancoliniMarcus.....................Robin Harvey EdwardsMme Marcus.............Julia SwiftCategory:DramaDirected by Peter Farago.