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David Golder, by Iréne Némirovsky

Book recommended for April by the Reading Group of the 'Call'

April

Call de Girona

Title: David Golder
Author: Iréne Némirovsky

David Golder is a banker in disgrace after a serious heart attack suffered in a casino of the Riviera. When the bad news about his health problems spread, the actions of his companies collapse. Thus, overnight, Golder finds himself in bankruptcy, broke, sick and abandoned by his wife and only daughter, so he shuts himself in an empty apartment in Paris. While he has lost everything, he still has the fighting spirit and love for risk that allowed him to leave the miserable Ukrainian ghetto where he was born.