Fire in the Blood

Nemirovsky, I.

ISBN 10: 0701181834 / ISBN 13: 9780701181833

Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 2007

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Clean, bright, tight copy in mylar-protected dj.

Seller Inventory # 000326

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fire in the Blood
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701181834
• ISBN 13: 9780701181833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern and a Few Not So Modern Firsts

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Synopsis

Hardcover. Translated from the French by Sandra Smith. Back dust jacket is lightly faded along upper edge, and there is a small nick to upper part of leading edge of jacket. Light wear to jacket spine head and leading corners. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Binding is sound and pages are tight and clean throughout. Text is clear. AF

Review

Amazon Best of the Month, October 2007: As the Nazis advanced on France, celebrated writer Irčne Némirovsky composed two final masterworks: Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. The first, smuggled out in a suitcase by her escaping daughters when Némirovsky was taken to her death at Auschwitz in 1942, surfaced more than 60 years later and restored her bestselling status. The other, two pages of which slipped out in that same suitcase, was thought lost--until biographers discovered the rest of the manuscript in papers given to Némirovsky's editor for safekeeping. A worthy companion to Suite Française, it follows three interwoven stories across two decades, when the hot-blooded affairs of youth threaten the cool calm of middle age. Once it has all unraveled, the last line lodges in your heart like a sliver. If only there could have been more. --Mari Malcolm