All Our Worldly Goods

Nemirovsky, Irene, Translated By Sandra Smith

ISBN 10: 0307743292 / ISBN 13: 9780307743299

Published by Vintage Books, New York, 2011

About this Item

"Set in France between 1910 and 1940--and first published 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.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: All Our Worldly Goods
• Publisher: Vintage Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307743292
• ISBN 13: 9780307743299
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First USA Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Historical Fiction
  • War
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irčne Némirovsky’s masterpiece Suite Française. 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 Némirovsky’s work so beloved and admired.

About the Author

Irčne Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and immigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with David Golder, which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, Suite Française was published posthumously for the first time in 2006.