All Our Worldly Goods
In haunting ways this wonderful, compelling novel prefigures Suite Francaise 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 starcrossed lovers, of money and greed, set against the backdrop of France from 1911 to 1940 between two terrible wars. Pierre and Agnes 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 is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie...
Издательство:
Random House
Дата выхода: август 2011