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Introspective, intense and poignant, "The Wine of Solitude" is the most autobiographical of all Irene Nemirovsky'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 Helene grows from a dreamy, unhappy child into an angry young woman. Through hot summers in a fictionalised Kiev (Nemirovsky's own birthplace) and the cruel winters of St Petersburg, the would-be writer Helene 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. (Large Print Edition)
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"A wonderfully atmospheric novel...captivating and searingly honest... A brilliant coming of age novel" (Helen Dunmore Guardian, Books of the Year)
"Haunting...profound...exquisitely wrought" (Independent on Sunday)
"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)
"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)
"Beautifully written... Her ability to evoke the feeling of time and especially place is remarkable" (Scotsman)
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"Haunting...profound...exquisitely wrought" (Independent on Sunday)
"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)
"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)
"Beautifully written... Her ability to evoke the feeling of time and especially place is remarkable" (Scotsman)
From the author of Suite Française comes a powerful novel of family, war and the end of innocence
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- PublisherParagon
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1445893029
- ISBN 13 9781445893020
- BindingPaperback
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