Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Francaise tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy--in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.When Irene...

From the celebrated author of the international bestseller "Suite Francaise," a newly discovered novel, a story of passion and long-kept secrets, set against the background of a rural French village in the years before World War II.Written in 1941, "Fire in the Blood" - only now assembled in its entirety - teems with the intertwined lives of an insular French village in the years before the war, when "peace" was less important as a political state than as a coveted personal condition: the untroubled pinnacle of happiness. At the center of the novel is Silvio, who has returned to this small...

This panoramic exploration of French life between the wars reads like a prequel to Irene Nemirovsky s international bestseller "Suite Francaise."
At the end of the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. Broken by the unspeakable horrors he has witnessed, he becomes addicted to the lure of wealth and success. He wallows in the corruption and excess of post-war Paris, but when his lover abandons him, Bernard turns to a childhood friend for comfort. For ten years, he lives the good bourgeois life, but when the drums of war begin to sound again,...

1929 L'action se situe en 1926, une periode de speculation intense qui se terminera dans le krach boursier de 1929. Le roman commence par une discussion entre deux associes, David Golder, 68 ans, et Marcus, dans laquelle on percoit l'aprete des enjeux capitalistes. David, riche, et juif (comme l'auteur), nous est decrit comme un etre rapace et implacable. Il met fin a son association avec Marcus et, au matin, il apprend son suicide. Apres l'enterrement, il rejoint sa femme et sa fille a Biarritz, toutes deux ecervelees, oisives et depensieres, ne pensant qu'a tirer de l'argent de Golder....