A review by pppaigeee
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky

5.0

I cannot BELIEVE I had never heard of Irène Némirovsky before a very kind stranger gave me a copy of this book! Thank you, kind stranger! Sandra Smith's translation is amazingly written, the characters are surprisingly complex for such a short book, and the story is nuanced and gripping, albeit in a very pastoral, quotidian kind of way. I have fallen in love. I'm dying to read this book in French, and then to devour everything else that Némirovsky wrote in her short lifetime.