Le Bal
$36.79
- Paperback
112 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2007
Summary
Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise.Le Bal is a sharp, brittle story of a girl who sets out to ruin the mother she hates. The Kampfs have risen swiftly up the ranks of 1930s Parisian society. Painfully aware of her working-class roots, and desperate to win acceptance, Madame Kampf decides to throw a huge ball to announce her arrival to society. Her daughter Antoinette, who has just tur…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099493976 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099493977 |
| Author: | Sandra Smith, Irène Némirovsky |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2007 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 7mm |
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This book is a masterpiece
With its cool, understated prose and sharp psychological accuracy, this is perfect for a train journey… A reminder of what good writing can achieve in a very few words * The Times *A cruel, sophisticated tale making the terrible beautiful without diminishing for one moment the horrors of displacement and war * Guardian *A genuine artist – Julian BarnesThis book is a masterpiece * Sunday Express *It is quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth… We are lucky to have this book * Sunday Telegraph *
About The Author
Sandra Smith
Ir ne Nemirovsky 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 or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Fran aise and Fire in the Blood. 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.
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