The Fires of Autumn

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 *
Her writing is harder and more vicious… Nemirovsky is fascinated by the impact of war on human behaviour – Louise Heighes * Metro *
Like Suite Française, 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 *

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’Évêque (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, among many others. Her translation of Némirovsky’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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