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The fires of Autumn

Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-19422014
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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.
Main title:
The fires of Autumn / by Irène Némirovsky ; translated by Sandra Smith.
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2014.
Collation:
240 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780701186593 (hbk)
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
3668662
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