Description: Written in 1941, the manuscript of "Fire in the Blood" was entrusted in pieces to family when the author was sent to her death at Auschwitz. The novel--only now assembled in its entirety--teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war.
Review Quotes: "Beautiful. . . . An enjoyable . . . portrait of manners from the first half of the last century."
--The Washington Post Book World
--Newsday "An almost perfect miniature, a tale of divided loves and loyalties set in an insular rural French village."
--O, Oprah Magazine "[Némirovsky] coolly explores the heat of passions old and new. . . leav[ing] readers profoundly satisfied with this portrait of la vieille France...so manifestly dear to her."
--San Francisco Chronicle