Fire in the Blood by Nemirovsky Irene
Describes about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions and the regrets of old age, about peasant communities and the way they hide their secrets. This novel is a morality tale with doubtful morals, and a story of murder, love and betrayal in rural France.
"All Nemirovsky's talent is apparent in her first novel: her pitiless gaze and her generous heart.. Suite Francaise may take the crown, but her other works confirm that she was not simply the chronicler of June 1940, but a writer with a very broad canvas who has finally found her place in the history of literature." Lire "A beautiful writer - lucid, bright ... She misses nothing." The Times "Like Chekhov, she observes and powerfully expresses the detail that fixes the scene." Guardian "A novelist of the very first order, perceptive to a fault and sly in her emotional restraint." Evening Standard
Irene Nemirovksy was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime, as well as the posthumous Suite Francaise. Prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France in 1940, she stayed with her husband and two small daughters in the small village of Issy-l'Eveque (in German occupied territory) where she had moved from Paris just before the invasion. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942. The first French publication of Fire in the Blood, by the publishers who discovered and published Suite Francaise, was in March 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780701181833 |
| ISBN 10 | 0701181834 |
| Title | Fire in the Blood |
| Author | Irène Némirovsky |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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