Fire in the Blood - Hardcover

Némirovsky, Irène

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701181834 ISBN 13: 9780701181833

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2007

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A real literary find - an unpublished jewel from the author of the internationally bestselling Suite Française

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Irène Némirovksy 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 Française. 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'Evêque (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 Française, was in March 2007.

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Praise for SUITE FRANCAISE

Possibly the most devastating indictment of French manners and morals since Madame Bovary ... a novelist of the very first order, perceptive to a fault and sly in her emotional restraint. - Evening Standard

A magnificent work that its readers will cherish for as long as they still care about the art of fiction or the history of Europe ... Every page shines with both a ravishing delight in the surface of life, and a profound empathy for the souls of its characters, that raises it to the ranks of the Russian and French masters. - Independent

A masterpiece of French fiction. - Sunday Times

This is fiction at it's redemptive best. - Mail on Sunday

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This gem of a novel by the author of the posthumously acclaimed and bestselling Suite Française has never previously been published. A few pages were in the famous suitcase which Némirovsky's daughters saved, and the rest had been deposited with a very close friend during the war.

A morality tale with doubtful morals, a story of murder, love and betrayal in rural France, Fire in the Blood, written in 1941, is set in a small village, based on l'Evêque where Suite Française was written, and brilliantly prefigures the village community in her later masterpiece.

An old man looks back on a chequered life, concealing truths he will not reveal until the end. Fire in the Blood starts quietly, lyrically, but then races away with narrative twists and surprise revelations. A young man, newly married, is found drowned in the mill stream; an old man is more concerned about the repayment of a debt than with his young wife; a young woman asks Silvio to plead her case; no-one is quite as they seem... Young women have to marry old men, youthful passions burn and the regrets of old age simmer in this rural community where secrets are kept close and passed from one generation to the next.

Némirovsky looks at her characters, both young and old, with the same clear-eyed distance and humanity as she displayed in Suite Française, unpeeling layer after layer. Atmospheric and haunting, Fire in the Blood is a gripping literary find.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0701181834
• ISBN 13: 9780701181833
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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