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The Fires of Autumn

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The Fires of Autumn

The prequel to Suite FranÃ§aise: a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war.Â

After four years of bloody warfare Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. No more the naÃ¯ve hopes and dreams of the teenager who went to war. Attracted by the lure of money and success, Bernard falls in with RenÃ©e and Raymond DÃ©tang, a couple whose life of luxuriant delinquency is supported by suspect financial dealings and loose morals. Yet when RenÃ©e DÃ©tang throws him off, he turns to his wholesome childhood friend ThÃ©rÃ¨se for comfort.Â
Â Â Â For ten years Bernard lives the good bourgeois life, but the allure of the DÃ©tangs draws him back, and he abandons ThÃ©rÃ¨se and their three children. But as another war threatens, Bernard and his son Yves are called up together. Yet they have very different wars: young Yves dies a futile unheroic death, whilst Bernard is captured by the Germans. He returns to ThÃ©rÃ¨se, now hiding in the countryside with her daughters (as NÃ©mirovsky did herself in 1941) a broken man.
Â Â Â The prequel to her masterpiece, Suite FranÃ§aise, The Fires of Autumn is a panoramic exploration of French life and a witness to the horrors of the twentieth century. Published posthumously in 1957, it is a coruscating, tragic evocation of the reality of war and its dirty aftermath, and the ugly colour it can turn a manâ€™s soul.

Country	USA
Author	Irene Nemirovsky
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780701186593
Format	International Edition
ISBN	0701186593
Label	Chatto & Windus
Manufacturer	Chatto & Windus
NumberOfItems	2
NumberOfPages	240
PublicationDate	2014-12-16
Publisher	Chatto & Windus
ReleaseDate	2014-12-16
Studio	Chatto & Windus

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