Book
Fire in the blood
Record details
- ISBN: 0676979807
- ISBN: 9780676979800 (hc) :
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Physical Description:
print
137 p. ; 22 cm. - Edition: 1st North American ed.
- Publisher: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2007.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of: La chaleur du sang. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Family secrets Fiction Village communities - France Fiction France - Fiction |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. |
Available copies
- 3 of 3 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Smithers Public Library | F NEM (Text) | 35101000286836 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Vanderhoof Public Library | AF NEM (Text) | 35193000007577 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | F NEMI (Text) | 40181349 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
A new treasure unearthed by Némirovskyâs biographers: another never-before-published novel from the author of the #1 bestselling Suite Française.
This perfect gem of a novel was discovered only recently in separate archive files. A few pages were in the famous suitcase that Irène Némirovskyâs daughters saved, but 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 and written in 1941, is set in a small village (based on Issy lâEvèque, where Suite Française was written), and brilliantly prefigures the village community in her later masterpiece.
Fire in the Blood is a 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 ways 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. As atmospheric and haunting as Sándor Máraiâs Embers, and with the crystalline perfection of Chekhov, Fire in the Blood is another gripping literary find.
