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All Our Worldly Goods

✍ Scribed by Nemirovsky, Irene

Book ID
108083810
Publisher
Random House
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
111 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Némirovsky's great unfinished sequence of novels. All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so -- a perfect novel in its own right. First published in France in 1947, after the author's death, it is a gripping story of family life and starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars.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. This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up with Némirovsky's characteristically sly humour and clear-eyed compassion. Full of drama and heartbreak, telling observation of the devastating effects of two wars on a small town and an industrial family, this...

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