The Fires of Autumn

Zusatztext

<p><b>The prequel to the bestselling<i>Suite Française</i></b></p><p>Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.</p><p>The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings, as well as an illicit affair.</p><p>But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.</p>

Autorenportrait

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<i>David Golder</i>,<i>All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves</i>and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published<i>Suite Française</i>and<i>Fire in the Blood</i>. 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'Evêque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irène began writing<i>Suite Française</i>. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

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