A hardened financier, for the sake of profit, drives a companion with whom he once started together to suicide—this is the plot of Irene Nemirovsky’s novel “David Golder.” The writer describes the behind the scenes of the cruel world of money in a dry, almost grotesque style, without sparing her heroes or sympathizing with them. This novel is both a picture of the morals that reign in the business world, and the story of the tragedy of an old man who was little loved in life, and a kind of parable about how no material wealth can hide the impoverishment of the soul. The novel “David Golder” is published in Russian for the first time .