The Dogs and the Wolves
Irène Némirovsky author Sandra Smith translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:7th Oct '10
Should be back in stock very soon
A wonderful, panoramic novel and an achingly poignant love story from the bestselling author of Suite Francaise.
From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.
Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a very different world.
From the author of the bestselling Suite Française.
Ada grows up motherless in the Jewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a city financier, belongs to a very different world. Eventually, in search of a brighter future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes from the world she has left behind. Harry Sinner also comes to Paris to mingle in exclusive circles, until one day he buys two paintings which remind him of his past and the course of Ada's life changes once more...
Written with tremendous assurance and finesse, The Dogs and the Wolves is an outstanding achievement of European fiction * Sunday Times *
The pleasure of this fine novel lies in its depiction of a doomed love affair... Némirovsky's exquisite descriptions of character reveal a brilliantly sharp eye * Daily Telegraph *
Nemirovsky was incapable of producing anything less than an enchanting novel. She has an irresistible talent for creating character and incident which makes this story as much a page-turner as anything she has written -- Carmen Callil * Guardian *
Nemirovksy is a deeply engaged observer of her characters, and her depiction of the inner lives of both Jews and Gentiles in Sandra Smith's admirable translation of this exquisitely detailed novel, has the fine, authentic ring of artistic truth * Sunday Telegraph *
She elegantly uses traditional orchestration, which makes her works, for all their weighty concerns, universally accessible and stirringly romantic * Independent *
ISBN: 9780099507789
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 14mm
Weight: 160g
224 pages