Name: Master of Souls
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Author: Némirovsky, Irène ; Smith, Sandra
ISBN: 9781737832744

Type

Physical Book

Author

Irène Némirovsky

Translated by

Sandra Smith

Publisher

Kales Press

Language

English

Pages

234

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.7 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781737832744

Synopsis "Master of Souls "

A starving young immigrant doctor of Italian and Greek descent, Dario Asfar struggles to establish his practice, and is desperate to provide for his wife and newborn son. When the vulgar, self-indulgent French aristocrat Philippe Wardes dismisses his personal physician's advice to abstain from alcohol and gambling, he turns to Dr. Asfar for a second opinion. Understanding the opportunity before him, Dario obliges Wardes, and others like him, knowing well that the rich want to eat of the forbidden fruit without paying for the sin. At first Dario's plan is just for survival, but soon he begins to enjoy increasing rewards by selling himself as a master of souls who can miraculously cure restless minds, and in so doing sheds light on the lies we tell ourselves in the name of family and love.

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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