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Yves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, old money fallen on hard times, who returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent idyllic childhood holidays. He becomes infatuated by a beautiful young woman, Denise, whose rich husband is often away on business. Yves seduces Denise and leaves her intensely, jealously in love, as he returns to the office at the end of the summer.
Yet in the mournful Paris autumn their love flounders. As Denise is driven mad with desire and suspicion, Yves seems to back off emotionally and, suffocated by her passion, he asks her to leave him alone for a while. This moment of misunderstanding is the turning point: he believes she has understood his needs, but beneath the surface she is delirious with anguish, now mixed with a sour bitterness.
With a biting satirical eye and a characteristic perception for the fault lines in human relationships, Irčne Némirovsky's first novel shows sure signs of the brilliant novelist she was later to become.
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IRČNE NÉMIROVSKY was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, Le Bal, The Courilof Affair, All Our Worldly Goods and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evęque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irčne began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the first UK edition, with the correct-number-string sequence including the No. "1" : 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1 on the printer's page. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith. The book was first published in France as "Le Malentendu" in 1926 by Les OEuvres Libres. ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt tiles to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked, with no bumps creases or tears to the cloth. Head and tail of spine uncreased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Page block edges clean. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions and clean pages. No creases or tears. ***In a near fine colour-illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of Ł12.99. The dustwrapper has no discernible faults - just the slightest of light creases, but no serious creases, chips or tears and no fading. Dustwrapper clean and unmarked. ***164 pages. 205mm x 135mm. *** '"The Misunderstanding" is Irčne Némirovsky's first novel, written when she was just twenty-one and published in a literary journal two years later. An intense story of self-destructive and blighted love, it is also a tragic satire of French society after the Great War. With a sharp satirical eye and a characteristic perception for the fault lines in human relationships, Irčne Némirovsky's first novel shows sure signs of the brilliant novelist sh was to become.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'Irčne Némirovsky born Irina Lvovna Nemirovskaya; 11 Febgg 1903 - 17 Aug 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws - which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism - she died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published "Suite française"'. (Wiki) ***First impression of the first UK edition, in bright crisp condition. Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # 9372
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