by Irène Némirovsky · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467206234
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In 'The Ball,' Irène Némirovsky immerses us in interwar France through the story of Antoinette Kampf, a young woman who experiences her family's social rise and the complex human relationships that arise in this context. The novel explores themes such as ambition, envy, and the loss of innocence, all narrated with the elegant and insightful prose that characterizes Némirovsky. A work that portrays the fragility of appearances and the search for identity in a constantly changing world.
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.
