by Irene Nemirovsky · FOLIO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070347810
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«Chaleur du sang» is the novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Folio in paperback (196 pages, in French).
In rural France of the 1930s, Silvio, an elderly man, observes the life of his community and hears the story of François and Hélène Érard, whose romantic past resurfaces when their daughter Colette marries Jean. After Jean's sudden death by drowning, the village's apparent calm is broken and family secrets come to light, narrated as an investigation leading to a disturbing revelation.
The novel was written in 1937 and remained unpublished for decades until its posthumous publication; this edition is part of the Folio collection.
Recommended for readers of classic French fiction and family dramas with a historical backdrop, as well as for those familiar with the work of Irène Némirovsky.
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.
