Name: The Prodigal Child
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Author: Némirovsky, Irène ; Smith, Sandra
ISBN: 9781733395847

Type

Physical Book

Author

Irène Némirovsky

Translated by

Sandra Smith

Publisher

Kales Press

Language

English

Pages

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

18x12.8x1.6 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781733395847

Synopsis "The Prodigal Child"

Set in what was then contemporary Russia at the turn of the century, in a large port town on the Black Sea, The Prodigal Child is a story of a boy with a gift for composing poetry and songs--his inspiration drawn from within--who attracts the attention of a Princess. This wealthy and sophisticated woman rescues Baruch from his hard life, though it is one he also adores as a Jewish boy coming of age in his Orthodox Jewish community. But his freedom turns into a prison for him as he hopelessly falls in love with the Princess, who has no interest in the boy other than for the entertainment he provides her with his art. Falling deeper and yet with no rescue this time, he becomes ill and in his throes loses his gift, the very reason he had met the Princess in the first place. Of no use to her any longer, he is returned to his family to suffer tragic consequences.

Irène Némirovsky

(Author)

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Irène Némirovsky (Kiev, February 11, 1903-Auschwitz concentration camp, August 17, 1942) was a writer born in the Russian Empire who lived in France from her youth and wrote in French. She was deported to Germany under racial laws due to her Jewish origin, although she had converted to Catholicism in 1939, and died in Auschwitz at the age of 39.

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