The Fires of Autumn
1st Edition
Published on 6. November 2014
320 pages
978-1-4090-1952-7 (ISBN)
Description
The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise
Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.
The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings, as well as an illicit affair.
But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.
Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.
The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings, as well as an illicit affair.
But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.
Reviews / Votes
Admirers of Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise...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 * Her writing is harder and more vicious... Nemirovsky is fascinated by the impact of war on human behaviour -- Louise Heighes * Metro * Like Suite Francaise, this is a gripping novel that at the same time is a terrible indictment -- John Sutherland * The Times * It's a sobering glimpse of the lives and loves of ordinary Parisians, and the best and worst of human nature -- Catherine Small * UK Press Syndication * It is a triumphant tour de force, a powerful, cinematic, real-time account of a European nation in full, panicked flight from a merciless invader -- Anne Garvey * Jewish Chronicle * A convincing portrait of human nature in the crucible of war * Good Book Guide *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Vintage Publishing
File size
1,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4090-1952-7 (9781409019527)
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Irene Nemirovsky (Author)
Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise 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'Eveque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irene began writing Suite Francaise. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Sandra Smith (Translator)
Sandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise 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.
Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise 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'Eveque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irene began writing Suite Francaise. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.
Sandra Smith (Translator)
Sandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise 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.
