The Fires of Autumn
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The Fires of Autumn by Irène Némirovsky
The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.
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 literary talent tragically cut short -- Sonia Zhuravlyova * Lady *
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 literary talent tragically cut short -- Sonia Zhuravlyova * Lady *
Irène Némirovsky (Author)
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 Suite Française 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'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Sandra Smith (Translator)
Sandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irène Némirovsky available in English, a new translation of Camus's The Outsider; and The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir (Ecco Press, USA), among many others. Her translation of Nemirovsky's Suite Française won the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens won The National Jewish Book Award. She currently teaches at NYU.
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 Suite Française 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'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing Suite Française. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Sandra Smith (Translator)
Sandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irène Némirovsky available in English, a new translation of Camus's The Outsider; and The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir (Ecco Press, USA), among many others. Her translation of Nemirovsky's Suite Française won the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens won The National Jewish Book Award. She currently teaches at NYU.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099520368 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099520362 |
| Title | The Fires of Autumn |
| Author | Irène Némirovsky |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2015-08-27 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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