Patrick Marnham

Disastrous twilight

With the opening paragraph of The Dogs and the Wolves (first serialised in France in 1939 and never previously translated) Irène Némirovsky takes us to the heart of her story: the complexities of Jewish life in eastern Europe and France in the first part of the 20th century.

  • The Dogs and the Wolves

    Irène Némirovsky, translated by Sandra Smith

    Chatto, pp. 216

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