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All Our Worldly Goods
- Narrated by: Eleanor Bron
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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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- Rachel Prichard
- 2022-07-23
beautiful
Loved it. What a beautiful story, beautifully written, translated and read. A new author for me but I shall read all she has written now.
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