{"title":"Irene Nemirovsky","description":"Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and immigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris, she began to write and swiftly achieved success with David Golder,  which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, Suite Française was published posthumously for the first time in 2006.","products":[{"product_id":"the-fires-of-autumn-paperback","title":"The Fires of Autumn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis panoramic exploration of French life between the wars reads like a prequel to Irène Némirovsky's international bestseller \u003ci\u003eSuite Française.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, everything around which he has rebuilt himself starts to crumble, and the future--of his marriage and of his country--suddenly becomes terribly uncertain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten after Némirovsky fled Paris in 1940, just two years before her death, and first published in France in 1957, \u003ci\u003eThe Fires of Autumn\u003c\/i\u003e is a coruscating, tragic novel of war and its aftermath, and of the ugly color it can turn a man's soul.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102563209439,"sku":"9781101872277","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/wRp8isaXdZ9781101872277.webp?v=1781083493"},{"product_id":"fire-in-the-blood-paperback","title":"Fire in the Blood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the celebrated author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eFire in the Blood\u003c\/i\u003e - 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 town after years away. As his narration unfolds, we are given an intimate picture of the loves and infidelities, the scandals, the youthful ardor and regrets of age that tie Silvio to the long-guarded secrets of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103244226783,"sku":"9780307388001","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/qwY3DRPDaK9780307388001.webp?v=1781090566"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/irene-nemirovsky.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}