by Irene Nemirovsky · Gran Travesía · tapa dura · ISBN 9788412725995
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In 1930s Paris, the Kampf family rises rapidly in society. The mother, aware of her humble origins, decides to organize a grand ball to be accepted. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Antoinette, longs to attend, but the mother refuses to introduce her to potential suitors. In an act of adolescent rebellion, Antoinette takes revenge, triggering events that will change the fate of her family.
Irène Némirovsky was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin who was born in Kiev, then in the Russian Empire. She lived more than half her life in France and wrote in French, but was denied French nationality. Arrested as a Jew under the racial laws – which did not take into account her conversion to Roman Catholicism – she died in Auschwitz at the age of 39. Némirovsky is best known for the posthumously published Suite française.
