All Our Worldly Goods

Irene Nemirovsky

All Our Worldly Goods
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 September 2009
Pages
272
ISBN
9780099520443

All Our Worldly Goods

Irene Nemirovsky

Reads like prequel to Suite Fran aise, but is a perfect novel in its own right - a gripping story of family life, of money and love, set against the backdrop of France in two terrible world wars.

From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise.

Pierre and Agn s marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. Even when war is imminent and Pierre is called up, the old man is unforgiving. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, All Our Worldly Goods points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly…

‘A remarkable novel…beautifully translated… Her voice, compassionate yet always shrewd, with its sharp portrait of France at war and during the optimistic and confused Twenties and early Thirties, is always distinctive’ Literary Review

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