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The wine of solitude
Call Number
- FICTION NEMI (CEN)
Publication Information
New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
Physical Description
248 p. ; 21 cm.
Uniform Title
Summary
Beginning in a fictionalized Kiev, this novel follows the Karol family through the Great War and the Russian Revolution, as the young Hélène grows from a dreamy, unhappy child into a strong willed 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.
Notes
"A Vintage International original"--T.p. verso.
Translation of: Vin de solitude.
Originally published as Le vin de solitude: Paris : Éditions Albin Michel, 1935.
This translation originally published in hardcover: London : Chatto & Windus, 2011.