| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0701182148 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-701-18214-4 |
| No of pages | 204 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
| Published Date | 04 Nov 2008 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0701182148 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-701-18214-4 |
| No of pages | 204 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Chatto & Windus |
| Published Date | 04 Nov 2008 |
Irène Némirovsky's own life was as dramatic as any fiction. Few writers enjoy posthumous success as astonishing as hers after the international triumph of Suite Françoise. She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family.
They fled the Russian revolution, eventually settling in France where, with the publication of David Golder in 1929 - delivered to a publisher just before the birth of her first daughter - Irène swiftly became an acclaimed and successful writer.
When France fell to the Nazis, Irène and her family took refuge in a small Burgundy village, but in July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and deported to Auschwitz. Irène died a month later, aged only thirty-nine.
Her biographers take advantage of access to diaries, unpublished documents and surviving family members to examine Irène's remarkable life, from pogroms in Ukraine to gilded holidays in Biarritz, and her troubled relationship with her vain, difficult mother.
The result is a brilliant portrait of an exceptional writer and of a turbulent period of European history.
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All Our Worldly Goods reads like a prequel to Suite Françoise, but is a perfect novel in its own right. In haunting ways, this compelling novel prefigures Suite Françoise and some of the themes of Malinovsky’s great unfinished sequence of novels.
All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so — a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author’s death, it is a gripping story of family life and star-crossed lovers, set in France between 1910 and 1940.
Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hard lot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations.
This is Balzac or The Forsyth Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up, with Malinovsky’s characteristically sly humor and clear-eyed compassion.
Full of drama and heartbreak, and telling observations of the devastating effects of two wars on a small town and an industrial family, Numerously is at the height of her powers.
Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, the novel points out with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close those two wars were, how history repeated itself, tragically and shockingly. The story opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy beach and ends with a changed world under Nazi occupation.