The wine of solitude
By: Irène Némirovsky ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon; Windsor; Paragon
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Bath]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781445893013; 9781445893020
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; 1900-1999; Autobiographical fiction; Kiev (Ukraine) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction; Saint Petersburg (Russia) - Social life and customs - 20th century - Fiction
Work titles: Vin de solitude
Description: Introspective, intense and poignant, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical of all Irène Némirovsky's novels, now available in English for the first time. Imbued with melancholy, and regret, it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and her mother's lover, Max.
Notes: Standard print ed. of this translation originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2011.

Translated from the French.