[PDF] The Wine Of Solitude eBook

Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101911441

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Introspective and poignant, The Wine of Solitude is the most autobiographical of all of the novels from the celebrated author of Suite Française. Beginning in a fictionalized Kiev, The Wine of Solitude follows the Karol family through the Great War and the Russian Revolution, as the young Hélène grows from a dreamy, unhappy child into a strongwilled young woman. From the hot Kiev summers to the cruel winters of St Petersburg and eventually to springtime in Paris, the would-be writer Hélène blossoms, despite her mother’s neglect, into a clear-eyed observer of the life around her. Here is a powerful tale of disillusionment — the story of an upbringing that produces a young woman as hard as a diamond, prepared to wreak a shattering revenge on her mother. A Vintage Paperback Original

Author : Irène Némirovsky
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Autobiographical fiction
ISBN : 9781445893013

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This work explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her self-absorbed mother & her mother's lover, Max. We follow the family through the Great War & the Russian Revolution as the young Helene grows into an angry young woman.

Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307949850

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In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irène Némirovsky’s masterpieceSuite Française. Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author’s death, All Our Worldly Goods is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and his grandfather, the tyrannical family patriarch. Their marriage provokes a family feud that cascades down the generations. This brilliant novel is full of drama, heartbreak, and the telling observations that have made Némirovsky’s work so beloved and admired.

Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2004-09-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1400095344

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A New York Times Book Review EDITORS' CHOICE. From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Motherless Brooklyn, comes the vividly told story of Dylan Ebdus growing up white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. In a neighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along with games of stoopball, Dylan has one friend, a black teenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. Through the knitting and unraveling of the boys' friendship, Lethem creates an overwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race and class, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging, loyalty, and memory. "A tour de force.... Belongs to a venerable New York literary tradition that stretches back through Go Tell It on the Mountain, A Walker in the City, and Call it Sleep." --The New York Times Magazine "One of the richest, messiest, most ambitious, most interesting novels of the year.... Lethem grabs and captures 1970s New York City, and he brings it to a story worth telling." --Time

Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307495450

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From the celebrated author of the international bestseller Suite Française, a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, Fire in the Blood – only now assembled in its entirety – teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when "peace" was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroubled pinnacle of happiness. At the center of the novel is Silvio, who has returned to this small town after years away. As his narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture of the loves and infidelities, the scandals, the youthful ardor and regrets of age that tie Silvio to the long-guarded secrets of the past.

Author : Bohumil Hrabal
Publisher : HMH
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 1992-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547545886

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A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times). A New York Times Notable Book Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. Every evening, he rescues books from the jaws of his hydraulic press, carries them home, and fills his house with them. Haňtá may be an idiot, as his boss calls him, but he is an idiot with a difference—the ability to quote the Talmud, Hegel, and Lao-Tzu. In this “irresistibly eccentric romp,” the author Milan Kundera has called “our very best writer today” celebrates the power and the indestructibility of the written word (The New York Times Book Review).

Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307949869

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A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the acclaimed author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth.

Author : Stephanie Rosenbloom
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 039956232X

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A wise, passionate account of the pleasures of traveling solo In our hectic, hyperconnected lives, many people are uncomfortable with the prospect of solitude. Yet a little time to ourselves can be an opportunity to slow down, savor, and try new things, especially when traveling. Through on-the-ground reporting, insights from social science, and recounting the experiences of artists, writers, and innovators who cherished solitude, Stephanie Rosenbloom considers how traveling alone deepens appreciation for everyday beauty, bringing into sharp relief the sights, sounds, and smells that one isn't necessarily attuned to in the presence of company. Walking through four cities--Paris, Florence, Istanbul, and New York--and four seasons, Alone Time gives us permission to pause, to relish the sensual details of the world rather than hurtling through museums and uploading photos to Instagram. In chapters about dining out, visiting museums, and pursuing knowledge, we begin to see how the moments we have to ourselves--on the road or at home--can be used to enrich our lives. Rosenbloom's engaging and elegant prose makes Alone Time as warmly intimate an account as the details of a trip shared by a beloved friend--and will have its many readers eager to set off on their own solo adventures.

Author : Surbhi Islam
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2019-07-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781645879121

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Do you like the feeling, when immediately after reading a piece of poetry you start relating with the poet? Phrases like, "Exactly! My point", "Hmm she is right", "Yaar! This one is so true", "It happened to me too" instinctively comes to your mind? Then this collection of Hindi poetry is definitely for you. Our Facebook and Instagram generation is habituated to read Hindi poetry but in English text. The idea is to help these readers feel comfortable and at home.

Author : Irene Nemirovsky
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307739317

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A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.