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Fire in the Blood (Vintage International)
by Irene Nemirovsky
from Vintage

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• 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 simple - a... more info

• If there was nothing else to read
  maybe it's me but i did not enjoy this book. I didn't like Suite franchise either.

• A Proustian Jewel
  This 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, or else... more info

• "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.... more info

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