Vintage Originals / Le Bal, English edition
And: Snow in Autumn
(Sprache: Englisch)
Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.
Leider schon ausverkauft
versandkostenfrei
Buch (Kartoniert)
11.61 €
Produktdetails
Produktinformationen zu „Vintage Originals / Le Bal, English edition “
Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.
Klappentext zu „Vintage Originals / Le Bal, English edition “
From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.Le Bal is a sharp, brittle story of a girl who sets out to ruin the mother she hates. The Kampfs have risen swiftly up the ranks of 1930s Parisian society. Painfully aware of her working-class roots, and desperate to win acceptance, Madame Kampf decides to throw a huge ball to announce her arrival to society. Her daughter Antoinette, who has just turned fourteen, dreams of attending, but Madame Kampf is resolved not to present her daughter to potential admirers. In a fury of adolescent rage and despair, Antoinette exacts a swift and horrible revenge...
Snow in Autumn pays homage to Némirovsky's beloved Chekhov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant following her masters as they flee Revolutionary Moscow and emigrate to a life of hardship in Paris. As the crisis pushes the family to the brink of dissolution, Tatiana struggles to adapt to life in Paris and waits in vain for her cherished first snow of autumn.
Autoren-Porträt von Irène Némirovsky
Irène 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, All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves 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'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. Sandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irène Némirovsky available in English, a new translation of Camus's The Outsider; and The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir (Ecco Press, USA), among many others. Her translation of Nemirovsky's Suite Française won the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens won The National Jewish Book Award. She currently teaches at NYU.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Irène Némirovsky
- 2007, 112 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 19,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: Sandra Smith
- Verlag: Vintage, London
- ISBN-10: 0099493977
- ISBN-13: 9780099493976
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.10.2007
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Vintage Originals / Le Bal, English edition “
"With its cool, understated prose and sharp psychological accuracy, this is perfect for a train journey... A reminder of what good writing can achieve in a very few words" The Times "A cruel, sophisticated tale making the terrible beautiful without diminishing for one moment the horrors of displacement and war" Guardian "A genuine artist" -- Julian Barnes "This book is a masterpiece" Sunday Express "It is quite outstanding, full of beauty, pain and truth... We are lucky to have this book" Sunday Telegraph
Pressezitat
With its cool, understated prose and sharp psychological accuracy, this is perfect for a train journey... A reminder of what good writing can achieve in a very few words The Times
Kommentar zu "Vintage Originals / Le Bal, English edition"
0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Vintage Originals / Le Bal, English edition“
Zustand | Preis | Porto | Zahlung | Verkäufer | Rating |
---|
Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Vintage Originals / Le Bal, English edition".
Kommentar verfassen