Fire in the blood
By: Irène Némirovsky ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith
Contributors: Smith, Sandra
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780099516095
Subjects: Village communities; Family secrets; Fiction; Memory in old age
Description: "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. 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 as Embers and with the crystalline perfection of Chekhov, Fire in the Blood is a gripping literary find."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Originally published in France by Editions Denoël as Chaleur du Sang in 2007.

Translated from the French.