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A review by teachergabi
Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
4.0
"The flesh is easy to satisfy. It is the heart that is insatiable, the heart that needs to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of fire... That was what we wanted. To burn, to be consumed, to devour our days just as fire devours the forest."
My goodness, for so short a book (129 pages), it once again does what Némirovsky has a genius for doing : taking the essence of a people, a place, and folding generations' worth of passion and folly, wisdom and grace, in an inch's worth of paper. And our hearts are left quickened for the journey.
My goodness, for so short a book (129 pages), it once again does what Némirovsky has a genius for doing : taking the essence of a people, a place, and folding generations' worth of passion and folly, wisdom and grace, in an inch's worth of paper. And our hearts are left quickened for the journey.