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| Le Bal | 
 enlarge | Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Creator: Sandra Smith
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 17672
Media: Paperback
Edition: New title
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0099493977
EAN: 9780099493976
ASIN: 0099493977
Publication Date: October 4, 2007
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Condition: Excellent unused condition. 100% proceeds to Save the Children Fund Registered charity number: 213890. Surface mail outside europe.
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Nemirovsky' s debut shows a very talented writer August 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was one of Nemirovsky's first works. It was written in 1928, the year before the Wall Street crac, but published in 1930, after David Golder. It tells the story of a French nouveau riche family, the Kampfs. He is a Jewish businessman who has suddenly strike rich on currency speculation; on marrying her unbearable catholic wife he converted to catholicism (there is some stereotyping here for those willing to look at it, though it's not as on-your-face as in Golder). They decide to give a ball in order to presents themselves into high society. Her fourteen years old daughter, the vivacious but lonely Antoinette is told she will not be allowed to the ball, so while sending the invitations she suddenly plans a cruel revenge on her parents (and especially her mother). A great book, especially observant at the feelings of a wounded teenager, and at less than 90 pages, between a short story and a novella.
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