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David Golder
David Golder is writer Irène Némirovsky's first novel. It was re-issued in 2004 following the popularity of the Suite Française notebooks discovered in 1998. "David Golder" was first published in France in 1929 and won instant acclaim for the 26-year-old author.
Plot summary.
The novel opens with Golder refusing to help his colleague of many years, Marcus. As a result of this, Marcus, bankrupt, commits suicide. Following the funeral, Golder travels to Biarritz where he has a
later known as Potala Palace, in Lhasa, and convert Tibetans to Islam. Before his death during almost 20 years of ruling he united all the settled country south of "Tangri Tagh", from Kashgar to Kumul, in one centralized state with a population of the same origin and language. Also such mountainous regions as Kashmir and Bolor (present Nuristan and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, also Chitral District of North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan) became dependencies of Yarkand state, paid tributes and struck silver and golder coins under