Le bal ; and, Snow in autumn / Irène Némirovsky ; translated from the French by Sandra Smith.

By:

Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942

Contributor(s):

Smith, Sandra, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Vintage, 2007.Description: 106 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780099493976 (pbk.)
0099493977 (pbk.)

Other title:

Bal ; and, Snow in autumn

Uniform titles:

Bal. English

Contained works:

Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942. Mouches d'automne. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

843 NéM

Contents:

Le bal -- Snow in Autumn.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	843 NÉM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Available		39002000162827
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Fiction Collection	843 NÉM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	3	Available		39002100340737

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise .

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 Nemirovsky'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.

Translation of Le Bal, and Les mouches d'automne.

Le bal -- Snow in Autumn.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Ir ne Nemirovsky 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 and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Fran aise and Fire in the Blood . In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.