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Una capa gélida envuelve el confín del mundo. Un panorama metafísico de viaje y silencio que se extiende sin interrupción bajo un sol inmóvil como una sentencia. Dentro de esta blancura —divina, p

In 1941, Irène Némirovsky sat down to write a book that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and perso

This perfect gem of a novel by the author of the posthumously acclaimed and bestselling SUITE FRANCAISE has never previously been published and was discovered only recently in separate archive files. A few pages were in the famous suitcase which her daughters saved, and the balance 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, planned in 1937, written in 1941, is set in a small village, based on Issy-l''Eveque where SUITE FRANCAISE was written, and brilliantly prefigures the village community in her later masterpiece. An old man looks back on a chequered life with secret regrets, concealing a truth he will not reveal until the end. FIRE IN THE BLOOD is a small and beautiful chamber piece which starts quietly, lyrically, but then races away with revelations and narrative twists in a story 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. Nemirovsky looks at her characters, both young and old, with the same clear-eyed distance and humanity as she displayed in SUITE FRANCAISE, unpeeling layer after layer. Atmospheric and haunting as EMBERS and with the crystalline perfection of Chekhov, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is a gripping literary find...

Nice, 1920. Un jeune médecin affamé, Dario, accepte de pratiquer un avortement clandestin sur une flamboyante aventurière new-yorkaise afin de sauver de la déchéance Clara, sa femme et leur nourrisso

La publicación del manuscrito que Irène Némirovsky dejó en una maleta que sus hijas guardaron durante sesenta años causó una auténtica conmoción en el mundo editorial. Suite francesa narra como miles

An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author''s tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, it is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art. Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. "Suite Francaise" tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy--in their town, their homes, even in their hearts. When Irene Nemirovsky began working on "Suite Francaise," she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky''s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of Fren

In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of ''liquidating'' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee. This is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power and an elegy to lost world. En 1903, el Comite Revolucionario encomienda a Leon M., un dedicado terrorista, la responsabilidad de ''liquidar'' a Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, el brutal y notoriamente sanguinario Ministro de Educacion ruso. Esta es una inspiradora observacion de las motivaciones humanas y de los abusos de poder, asi como una elegia al mundo perdido.