The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise

Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.

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.

But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain.

The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Francaise: a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war

About the Author
Irene Nemirovsky (Author)
Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise 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'Eveque (in German occupied territory). It was here that Irene began writing Suite Francaise. She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

Sandra Smith (Translator)
Sandra Smith is the translator of all 14 novels by Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise 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.



Reviews
Admirers of Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise...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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9780099520368
Author Irene Nemirovsky
Format Paperback
Page Count 320
Imprint Vintage
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Weight(grams) 223g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 19mm