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Author Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942.

Title The dogs and the wolves
Published [Place of publication not identified] : RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD, 2008

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Summary This wonderful, panoramic novel goes right back to Irne Nmirovsky s roots, sweeping the reader from the Jewish quarter of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentieth century to Paris in the twenties and thirties, and back again to eastern Europe in a snowy winter on the eve of war. At its heart is a tragic love, between Ada from the poor Jewish quarter and Harry, son of a rich financier. The dogs are the comfortable, assimilated rich Jews up on the hill, while the wolves, their distant cousins, struggle below in the ghetto. Ada grows up motherless, looked after first by her father, then by an indomitable, social-climbing aunt, and eventually moves to Paris with her aunt s family, all of them looking for a brighter future. Ada makes a living in Paris as an artist, painting scenes from the world she has left behind. Her cousin Ben, intense and ferociously intelligent, has loved her for years; they share memories together they survived the terrible pogroms of their childhood and
Genre/Form Reading nook.
ISBN 9780099507789 hardback
0099507781 hardback