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All Our Worldly Goods

By Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translator)

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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, aftContinue

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 is Némirovsky at the height of her powers. The exodus and flow of refugee humanity through the town in both wars foreshadows Suite Française, but differently, because this is Northern France, near the Somme, and the town itself is twice razed. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, the novel points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly... It opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy beach, and ends with a changed world, under Nazi occupation.

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  • All Our Worldly Goods

    ALL OUR WORLDLY GOODS is the posthumous publication of a great European writer who died at Auschwitz in 1942. Most of Irene Nέmirovsky’s publications are in French, though several have garnered enough attention to be translated into other languages. ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Fri, 28 Oct 2011

  • All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky - Review by Waterstone's Books Quarterly Online

    This is a precisely crafted and unsparing portrayal of lives drawn inexorably into senseless tragedy. Human passions and frailties are etched starkly against the dark realities of a Northern France torn by two world wars. A magnificent partner to the ... (read full critics)

    wbqonline published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

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  • Saga of a family during the war. Very well written

    Characters: Pierre Hardelot, Agnes

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  • English Books
  • eBook 272 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 140706536X
  • ISBN-13: 9781407065366
  • Publisher: Random House
  • Pub date: Feb 23, 2010
  • Also available as: Others
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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