All Our Worldly Goods

Name: All Our Worldly Goods
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Irène Némirovsky
ISBN: 9780099520443

Irène Némirovsky

02/07/2009
Vintage

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de All Our Worldly Goods par Irène Némirovsky

Résumé

From the author of the bestselling Suite Française. Pierre and Agnès marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations. Even when war is imminent and Pierre is called up, the old man is unforgiving. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, All Our Worldly Goods points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly... 'A remarkable novel...beautifully translated... Her voice, compassionate yet always shrewd, with its sharp portrait of France at war and during the optimistic and confused Twenties and early Thirties, is always distinctive' Literary Review