A real literary find - an unpublished jewel from the author of the internationally bestselling Suite Fran aise
Ir ne 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 Fran aise. 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'Ev que (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 Fran aise, was in March 2007.
Another masterpiece
*Sunday Times*
Mesmerising...another gem from a glittering career cut tragically
short
*Daily Express*
A literary find of the same quality as Suite Française...it has a
universal resonance by exhibiting not only what people do to each
other but what the passing of time does to us all
*Sunday Times*
Magnificently atmospheric... She is so clever, quick and observant,
that every character in the story bounds into life
*Financial Times*
Gripping and full of interest...it confirms Némirovsky's brilliance
as a storyteller with a deep understanding of the hidden flaws and
cruelties in the human heart
*Sunday Telegraph*
Silvio, the narrator of Nemirovsky's brief, posthumously published novel, lives alone on his small farm in pre-WWII rural France, committed to his permanent bachelorhood. But as he watches the affairs of young people around him, he recalls his early love life and the dying embers in his spirit start to glow again. Bramhall reflects this well in his deep, harsh voice by building up from Silvio's tone of quiet disdain and aloofness into one of possessive fervor. The French-accented English he uses for all conversation helps listeners place the story on a cognitive map. His voice lulls listeners past noticing the novel's unfinished state. The dropped strands of the plot, the chapters consisting of just a few paragraphs and the scenes with rougher edges all fade thanks to his low but intense growl. Fans of Nemirovsky's more polished Suite Fran?aise and romantics with a taste for passionately spoken French, will be swept up by this entrancing and evocative tale. Simultaneous release with the Knopf hardcover (Reviews, Sept. 3). (Oct.) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Another masterpiece * Sunday Times *
Mesmerising...another gem from a glittering career cut tragically
short * Daily Express *
A literary find of the same quality as Suite Francaise...it
has a universal resonance by exhibiting not only what people do to
each other but what the passing of time does to us all -- Peter
Kemp * Sunday Times *
Magnificently atmospheric... She is so clever, quick and observant,
that every character in the story bounds into life -- Carmen Callil
* Financial Times *
Gripping and full of interest...it confirms Nemirovsky's brilliance
as a storyteller with a deep understanding of the hidden flaws and
cruelties in the human heart * Sunday Telegraph *
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