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The Dogs and the Wolves

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099507789

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 160g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Dogs and the Wolves

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...

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099507789

  • Length: 224  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 160g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • "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

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About the Author

Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky 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 . She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. Sandra Smith has translated twelve novels by Irène Némirovsky as well as a new translation of Camus’ The Outsider. Némirovsky’s Suite Française won her the French American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Prize and The PEN Translation Prize. Five of her translations have been adapted as radio plays and broadcast on the BBC. Suite Française is the first to become a film.

Irène Némirovsky

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