Les Feux De L'Automne by Irene Nemirovsky

Les Feux De L'Automne by Irene Nemirovsky

This panoramic exploration of French life between the wars reads like a prequel to Ir ne N mirovsky's international bestseller Suite Fran aise.

At the end of the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. Broken by the unspeakable horrors he has witnessed, he becomes addicted to the lure of wealth and success. He wallows in the corruption and excess of post-war Paris, but when his lover abandons him, Bernard turns to a childhood friend for comfort. For ten years, he lives the good bourgeois life, but when the drums of war begin to sound again, everything around which he has rebuilt himself starts to crumble, and the future--of his marriage and of his country--suddenly becomes terribly uncertain.

Written after N mirovsky fled Paris in 1940, just two years before her death, and first published in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic novel of war and its aftermath, and of the ugly color it can turn a man's soul.

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ISBN 13	9782253121312
ISBN 10	2253121312
Title	Les Feux De L'Automne
Author	Irene Nemirovsky
Series	Ldp Litterature Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Librairie generale francaise
Year published	2007-11-14
Number of pages	281
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