by Irène Némirovsky · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246151340
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«Le Bal» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (120 pages, in French).
The Kampfs, a newly wealthy family, throw a ball to enter Parisian high society. Antoinette, fourteen, longs to attend, but her mother forbids it. Humiliated, the girl plots a silent revenge. A satire on appearances and the torments of childhood.
Work originally published in 1930 and included in this 2002 edition in the Les Cahiers Rouges collection from Grasset.
For readers of classic French fiction and short novels about family and class conflicts.
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.
