An astonishing depiction of human greed and emotion from the author of Suite Fran aise
Ir ne Nemirovksy 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, as well as the posthumously published Suite Fran aise and Fire in the Blood. The Wine of Solitude (Le Vin de Solitude) was first published in France in 1935. Nemirovksy died in Auschwitz in 1942. Sandra Smith is a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, and has translated all the novels of Ir ne Nemirovksy available in English. 'Sandra Smith's translations are of the highest quality.' J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books
Haunting...profound...exquisitely wrought
*Independent on Sunday*
A wonderfully atmospheric novel...captivating and searingly
honest
*Guardian*
The tangle of this unhappy family is beautifully and ruthlessly
analysed... The relationship between mother and daughter is
described with uncompromising lucidity... Némirovsky evokes the
places of her childhood with a sensuous clarity
*Guardian*
A brilliant coming of age novel... Némirovsky is so honest and she
never fluffs a line
*Guardian, Books of the Year*
The Wine of Solitude is an end-of-innocence story... It is
Némirovsky's powers of social observation...the implacable eye for
the nuances of human conduct, that make The Wine of Solitude so
memorable
*Financial Times*
Haunting...profound...exquisitely wrought * Independent on Sunday
*
A wonderfully atmospheric novel...captivating and searingly honest
* Guardian *
The tangle of this unhappy family is beautifully and ruthlessly
analysed... The relationship between mother and daughter is
described with uncompromising lucidity... Nemirovsky evokes the
places of her childhood with a sensuous clarity * Guardian *
A brilliant coming of age novel... Nemirovsky is so honest and she
never fluffs a line -- Helen Dunmore * Guardian, Books of the Year
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The Wine of Solitude is an end-of-innocence story... It is
Nemirovsky's powers of social observation...the implacable eye for
the nuances of human conduct, that make The Wine of Solitude
so memorable * Financial Times *
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