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The Fires of Autumn was written in the last two years of Irène Némirovsky’s life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite Française, it is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the greatest horrors of the twentieth century.
After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naïve hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money and success, Bernard embarks on a life of luxuriant delinquency supported by suspect financial dealings and easy virtue.
Yet when his lover throws him off, he turns to a wholesome childhood friend for comfort. For ten years he lives the good bourgeois life, but as another war threatens everything Bernard had clung to starts to crumble, and the future for his marriage and for France looks terribly uncertain.
First published posthumously in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic evocation of the reality of war and its dirty aftermath, and the ugly colour it can turn a man’s soul.
After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naïve hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money and success, Bernard embarks on a life of luxuriant delinquency supported by suspect financial dealings and easy virtue.
Yet when his lover throws him off, he turns to a wholesome childhood friend for comfort. For ten years he lives the good bourgeois life, but as another war threatens everything Bernard had clung to starts to crumble, and the future for his marriage and for France looks terribly uncertain.
First published posthumously in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic evocation of the reality of war and its dirty aftermath, and the ugly colour it can turn a man’s soul.
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"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)
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"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)
The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Française: a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war
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- PublisherChatto & Windus
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 0701186607
- ISBN 13 9780701186609
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- Number of pages240
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