Fire in the Blood
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2008
Summary
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood – only now assembled in its entirety – teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when “peace” was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroub…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780307388001 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 030738800X |
| Author: | Irene Nemirovsky |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 155g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 133mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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“Courageous, uncompromising … An entire world, vividly rendered, emerges from [these] pages … N
“Beautiful… . An enjoyable … portrait of manners from the first half of the last century.” —The Washington Post Book World“Courageous, uncompromising… . An entire world, vividly rendered, emerges from [these] pages.” —Newsday“An almost perfect miniature, a tale of divided loves and loyalties set in an insular rural French village.” —O, Oprah Magazine“[Némirovsky] coolly explores the heat of passions old and new… leav[ing] readers profoundly satisfied with this portrait of la vieille France…so manifestly dear to her.” —San Francisco Chronicle
About The Author
Irene Nemirovsky
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with her first novel, David Golder, which was followed by The Ball, The Flies of Autumn, Dogs and Wolves and The Courilof Affair. She died in 1942.
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