All Our Worldly Goods - N mirovsky, Ir ne

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Résumé :
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...

Biographie:
Ir?ne N?mirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903, the daughter of a successful Jewish banker. In 1918 her family fled the Russian Revolution for France where she became a bestselling novelist, author of David Golder, All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Fran?aise and Fire in the Blood. She was prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France and moved with her husband and two small daughters from Paris to the safety of the small village of Issy-l'Ev?que (in German occupied territory). It was here that Ir?ne began writing Suite Fran?aise. She died in Auschwitz in 1942....

Sommaire:
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...

A gorgeous novel - witty, tender and true Financial Times 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 Nemirovsky's great bourgeois tragedy is modest in scale but epic in scope. Her highly distinctive style, the delicate but relentless accretion of finely observed detail, produces a story in which universal cataclysm mirrored in apparently insignificant personal destiny, to extraordinary resonant effect -- Jane Shilling Sunday Telegraph A coolly crafted traditional family novel -- A S Byatt Guardian Nemirovsky's last stories are a living history of the occupation, written in real time Sunday Times