Les Biens De CE Monde by Irene Nemirovsky
In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Ir ne N mirovsky's masterpiece Suite Fran aise. Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author's death, All Our Worldly Goods is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and his grandfather, the tyrannical family patriarch. Their marriage provokes a family feud that cascades down the generations. This brilliant novel is full of drama, heartbreak, and the telling observations that have made N mirovsky's work so beloved and admired.
Irene Nemirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a successful banking family. Trapped in Moscow by the Russian Revolution, she and her family fled first to a village in Finland, and eventually to France, where she attended the Sorbonne.
Irene Nemirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.
When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L'Eveque. It was there that she secretly began writing Suite Francaise. Though her family had converted to Catholicism, she was arrested on 13 July, 1942, and interned in the concentration camp at Pithiviers. She died in Auschwitz in August of that year.
Irene Nemirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.
When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L'Eveque. It was there that she secretly began writing Suite Francaise. Though her family had converted to Catholicism, she was arrested on 13 July, 1942, and interned in the concentration camp at Pithiviers. She died in Auschwitz in August of that year.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782226158505 |
| ISBN 10 | 2226158502 |
| Title | Les Biens De CE Monde |
| Author | Irene Nemirovsky |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Michel albin SA |
| Year published | 2005-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 324 |
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