Irène Némirovsky

A dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930s France from the author of David Golder and Suite Française.In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she is still beautiful, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses …

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood – only now assembled in its entirety – teems with the …

Il ballo è un romanzo breve, scritto nel 1928 e pubblicato nel 1930, da un'Irène Némirovsky venticinquenne, che si affacciava alla scena della brillante vita mondana di Parigi, dopo le peripezie della fuga dalla Russia bolscevica, attraverso Svezia e Finlandia. Erano gli Anni ruggenti, di lì a poco sarebbe arrivata, …