Fire in the Blood

Irene Nemirovsky

RRP: £12.99

Publisher: CHATTO & WINDUS

Publication Date : 27/09/2007

Hardback

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Guardian Bookshop Notes:

A real literary find - an unpublished short novel from the author of "Suite Francaise"; a few pages were in the famous suitcase saved by Nemirovsky's daughters, and the rest deposited with a close friend during the war. Written in 1941 it is a story of murder, love and betrayal in rural France, and prefigures the village community in her later masterpiece. Published in a beautiful small hardback gift edition. An audio edition is also available.

Publisher's description:

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.

ISBN: 9780701181833