by Irène Némirovsky · Viena · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412024494
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«El ball» is the short novel by Irène Némirovsky, published by Viena in 2019 in paperback (88 pages, in Catalan).
In early 20th-century Paris, a nouveau riche family settles on one of the city's most elegant boulevards. To break into high society, the mother organises a grand ball but forbids her teenage daughter from attending. The prohibition awakens in the girl a silent revenge.
The original title is «Le Bal», published in 1930; the translation is by Xavier Pàmies and the edition is part of the Petits Plaers collection.
For readers of classic fiction and short narrative interested in social portraits and family 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.
