All Our Worldly Goods (Audio book) - 5 CDS

Informationen zum Autor 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 David Golder , All Our Worldly Goods, The Dogs and the Wolves and other works published in her lifetime or soon after, such as the posthumously published Suite Française and Fire in the Blood . 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 Suite Française . She died in Auschwitz in 1942. Sandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irène Némirovsky available in English, a new translation of Camus's The Outsider ; and The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times, Inseparable by Simone de Beauvoir (Ecco Press, USA), among many others. Her translation of Nemirovsky's Suite Française won the French-American Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Translation Prize. Her translation of But You Did Not Come Back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens won The National Jewish Book Award. She currently teaches at NYU. Klappentext 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 generations. Zusammenfassung 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 generations.

Product details

• Authors: Irene Nemirovsky, Irène Némirovsky
• Assisted by: Eleanor Bron (Reader / Narrator), Bron Eleanor (Reader / Narrator), Sandra Smith (Translation), Sandra (Translator) Smith (Translation)
• Publisher: Audio Cornerstone
• Languages: English
• Product format: CD-Audio
• Released: 02.10.2008
• EAN: 9781846571497
• ISBN: 978-1-84657-149-7
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 125 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Random House Audiobooks
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, France, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, 20th Century, Fiction in translation, War & combat fiction, Family life fiction, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, War, combat and military adventure fiction, suite francaise; love marriage; family saga