by Irène Némirovsky · Salamandra · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788498380231
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«El baile» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Salamandra in paperback (96 pages, in Spanish).
In the Paris of the upper bourgeoisie, the Kampf family prepares a grand ball to gain recognition from high society. Antoinette, the fourteen-year-old daughter, excluded from the event by her mother, responds with an impulsive gesture that triggers a dramatic ending about the mother-daughter relationship.
The work was originally published in French in 1930; this Spanish edition is translated by Gemma Moral Bartolomé and is part of the Salamandra Narrativa collection.
For readers of classics and coming-of-age stories: an adolescent protagonist and a psychological look at Parisian society at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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.
