The wine of solitude
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: The wine of solitude
Other titles: Vin de solitude
Classmark: Manuscripts MS 606/J22 (Leeds Russian Archive)
Creator(s): Némirovsky, Irène (1903-1942)
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication city: New York
Date(s): 2012
Language: English
Size and medium: 248 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/498016
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991010706719705181
Collection group(s): Leeds Russian Archive
Description
"A Vintage International original"--Title page verso.
Translation of: Vin de solitude, published: Paris : Éditions Albin Michel, 1935.
This translation originally published in hardcover: London : Chatto & Windus, 2011.
"Beginning in a fictionalized Kiev, The Wine of Solitude follows the Karol family through the Great War and the Russian Revolution, as the young Hélène grows from a dreamy, unhappy child into a strong willed young-woman. From the hot Kiev summers to the cruel winters of St Petersburg and eventually to springtime in Paris, the would-be writer Hélène blossoms, despite her mother's neglect, into a clear-eyed observer of the life around her. Here is a powerful tale 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."--Page 4 of cover.
Additional description
With L. Andreyev autochrome on cover
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