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Books : Fire in the BloodIn association with Amazon.comby: Irene Nemirovsky  List Price: $27.95 Amazon.com's Price: $21.24 You Save: $6.71 (24%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 843.912 EAN: 9780739357767 Format: Audiobook, Unabridged ISBN: 073935776X Label: Random House Audio Manufacturer: Random House Audio Number Of Items: 3 Publication Date: September 25, 2007 Publisher: Random House Audio Release Date: September 25, 2007 Studio: Random House Audio Sales Rank: 1089954 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Here is a missing piece of the remarkable posthumous legacy of Irène Némirovsky, author of the internationally acclaimed Suite Française. The novel–only now assembled in its entirety–teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when “peace” was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroubled pinnacle of happiness. At the center of the tale is Silvio: in his younger years he fled the boredom of the village and made a life of travel and adventure. Now he’s returned, living in a farmer’s hovel in the middle of the woods, and, much to his family’s chagrin, perfectly content with his solitude. As his narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture of the loves and infidelities, the scandals, the youthful ardor and regrets of age that tie Silvio to the long-guarded secrets of the past. Amazon.com Review: Amazon Best of the Month, October 2007: As the Nazis advanced on France, celebrated writer Irène 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 Average Rating:
 Rating: - a lovely, wicked story"Fire in the Blood" is a wonderful story of a small French community before World War II and the social struggles which they encounter. Overrun by minding their own business, the citizens of the backwater hamlet allow terrible moral digressions to go unpunished and genuine love to be overshadowed by prior commitments and counterintuitive traditions. The book is also incredibly easy to read, and can be completed in a sitting or two for the quick reader. The translation is beautiful yet ... Read More Rating:  - If there was nothing else to readmaybe it's me but i did not enjoy this book. I didn't like Suite franchise either. Rating: - A Proustian JewelThis is indeed a Proustian gem. As the Preface to the French Edition notes, "The book grew in her mind when, during the summer of 1938, she (Nemirovsky) reread Proust's Within a Budding Grove." What this elegantly written, luxuriant and, sadly, incomplete narrative concerns is the perennial search for a self which must always remain fictional due to the passage of time. As Nemirovsky, with a flair, puts it herein, "If they could see their own youth resurrected before them, it would horrify them, ... Read More Rating: - "Youthful ardor and regrets"Irène Némirovsky's "Fire in the Blood (Chaleur du sang)" is a novella about the intensity of youth and the affairs of the heart. It is pensive, melancholy, almost heartbreaking. Quite unlike her more well-known "Suite Française," it is about survival of a different sort. This time, it's surviving the pain of losing someone who's so fervently loved. After years spent wandering the world, Silvio returns to his French roots, the rural village of Issy-l'Évêque in Burgundy. Decades ... Read More Rating:  - Extraordinary insightThis tiny volume is the other part- manuscript saved by the daughters of brilliant, Jewish-Russian author, Irene Nemirovsky who wrote Suite Francaise before being interned and murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in WW2. She was only a young woman in her thirties when she wrote this incredibly insightful story of old and new love among the farming classes in France in the twenties and thirties ( and what a miserable, vindictive lot they appear to be) The story is of a woung widow who married a bitter, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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