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Sandra Smith

Biography

Sandra Smith

Sandra Smith has published over 30 translations, including SUITE FRANÇAISE (Irène Némirovsky), BUT YOU DID NOT COME BACK (Marceline Loridan-Ivens), THE NECKLACE AND OTHER STORIES: Maupassant for Modern Times, THE STRANGER (Albert Camus), JACQUES SCHIFFRIN: A Publisher in Exile (Amos Reichman), CREATE DANGEROUSLY (Albert Camus), among others. She has won the French-American-Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Independent British Booksellers Book of the Year Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award.

Sandra Smith

Books by Sandra Smith

Inseparable
written by Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Sandra Smith - Fiction

From the moment Sylvie and Andrée meet in their Parisian day school, they see in each other an accomplice with whom to confront the mysteries of girlhood. For the next 10 years, the two are the closest of friends and confidantes as they explore life in a post-World War I France, and as Andrée becomes increasingly reckless and rebellious, edging closer to peril. Sylvie sees a France of clashing ideals and religious hypocrisy --- and at an early age is determined to form her own opinions. Andrée is inclined to melodrama and romance. Despite their different natures, they rely on each other to safeguard their secrets while entering adulthood in a world that did not pay much attention to the wills and desires of young women.