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The Fires of Autumn
Irène Némirovsky
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Description for The Fires of Autumn
Paperback. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky’s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naïve hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money and success, Bernard embarks on a life of luxuriant delinquency supported by suspect financial dealings and ... Read more
The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky’s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century. After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naïve hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money and success, Bernard embarks on a life of luxuriant delinquency supported by suspect financial dealings and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780701186609
SKU
9780701186609
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About Irène Némirovsky
Irène Némirovsky 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 ... Read more
Reviews for The Fires of Autumn
"Admirers of Nemirovsky’s Suite Française…won’t want to miss this novel"
Peter Kemp
Sunday Times
"Beautiful…Powerful…Poignant"
Independent
"Revelatory… gripping and illuminating"
Sunday Times
"One puts it down with unqualified admiration… This fine novel will further enhance Irene Nemirovsky’s name"
John Sutherland
The Times
"This astute novel is witness to an undeniable ... Read more
Peter Kemp
Sunday Times
"Beautiful…Powerful…Poignant"
Independent
"Revelatory… gripping and illuminating"
Sunday Times
"One puts it down with unqualified admiration… This fine novel will further enhance Irene Nemirovsky’s name"
John Sutherland
The Times
"This astute novel is witness to an undeniable ... Read more