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.
"The Fires of Autumn" was written in the last two years of Irene Nemirovsky's life, after she fled Paris in 1940. The prequel to her masterpiece, "Suite Francaise," 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. No more the naive hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to...