All Our Worldly Goods
- Compact Disc
224 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2008
Summary
A gripping story of family life and love, set against the backdrop of France in the years between the wars.
In haunting ways, this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Nemirovsky’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 s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781846571497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1846571499 |
| Author: | Irène Némirovsky, Eleanor Bron, Sandra Smith |
| Publisher: | Cornerstone |
| Imprint: | Random House Audiobooks |
| Format: | Compact Disc |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 214g |
| Dimensions: | 125mm x 142mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
“A beautiful writer - lucid, bright … She misses nothing.” The Times From the Trade Paperback edition.
Elegantly translated, it is read with a gentle sensitivity by the incomparable Eleanor Bron. It will make you cry, certainly, but you will not regret listening to it.
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..a good story * The Guardian *
About The Author
Irène Némirovsky
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, Le Bal and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, as well as the posthumous Suite Française and Fire in the Blood. Prevented from publishing when the Germans occupied France in 1940, she stayed with her husband and two small daughters in the small village of Issy-l’Évêque (in German occupied territory) where she had moved from Paris just before the invasion. In July 1942 she was arrested by the French police and interned in Pithiviers concentration camp, and from there immediately deported to Auschwitz where she died in August 1942.
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