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Introspective, intense and poignant, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical of all Irène Némirovsky's novels, now available in English for the first time.
Imbued with melancholy, and regret, it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and her mother's lover, Max. We follow the family through the Great War and the Russian Revolution, as the young Hélène grows from a dreamy, unhappy child into an angry young woman.
Through hot summers in a fictionalised Kiev (Némirovsky's own birthplace) and the cruel winters of St Petersburg, the would-be writer Hélène blossoms, despite her mother's neglect, into a clear-eyed observer of the life around her. The Wine of Solitude is a powerful tale, telling less of the end of innocence, than of disillusionment; the story of an upbringing that produces a young woman as hard as a diamond, prepared to wreak a shattering revenge on her mother.
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"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" (Helen Dunmore 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)
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"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" (Helen Dunmore 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)
An astonishing depiction of human greed and emotion from the author of Suite Française
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0701185570
- ISBN 13 9780701185572
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