IrÃ¨ne NÃ©mirovsky
Introspective, intense and poignant, ,The Wine of Solitude, is the most autobiographical of all IrÃ¨ne NÃ©mirovsky's novels, now available in English for the first time.,Imbued with melancholy, and regret, it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and her mother's lover, Max. We follow the family through the Great War and the Russian Revolution, as the young HÃ©lÃ¨ne grows from a dreamy, unhappy child into an angry young woman.,Through hot summers in a fictionalised Kiev (NÃ©mirovsky's own birthplace) and the cruel winters of St Petersburg, the would-be writer HÃ©lÃ¨ne blossoms, despite her mother's neglect, into a clear-eyed observer of the life around her. ,The Wine of Solitude, is a powerful tale, telling less of the end of innocence, than of disillusionment; the story of an upbringing that produces a young woman as hard as a diamond, prepared to wreak a shattering revenge on her mother.
Fiction,Historical,Historical Fiction,Classics,Cultural,France,European Literature,French Literature,Cultural,Russia,Womens,Literature,Literary Fiction,Literature,20th Century
The Wine of Solitude