Fire in the blood
By: Irène Némirovsky ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9780753181546; 9780753181553
Subjects: Family secrets; Fiction; Village communities; Memory in old age
Work titles: Chaleur du sang
Description: A morality tale with doubtful morals, a story of murder, love and betrayal in rural France, Fire in the Blood is set in a small village. An old man looks back on a chequered life with secret regrets, concealing a truth he will not reveal until the end. This book 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.
Notes: This translation originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2007.