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Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: Random House, PAPERBACK  EDITION.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE2013 Used From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran??aiseA compelling story of infatuation, passion and self-destructive loveYves Harteloup is a disappointed young man, scarred by the war He returns for the summer to the rich, comfortable Atlantic resort of Hendaye, where he spent blissful childhood holidays There he becomes infatuated by a beautiful, bored young woman, Denise, whose rich husband is often away on business Intoxicated by summer nights and Yves' intensity, Denise falls passionately in love, before the idyll has to end and Yves must return to his mundane office job In the mournful Paris autumn their love founders on mutual misunderstanding and Denise is driven mad with desire and jealous suspicion until, acting on her sophisticated mother's advice, she takes actionwhich she may regret forever.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: Vintage,PAPERBACK EDITION.MID SIZE SOFT COVER -.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE 2007 Used Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her first novel David Golder At the time, only the most prescient would have predicted the events that led to her extraordinary final novel Suite Fran??aise and her death at Auschwitz Yet the clues are there in this astonishingly mature story of an elderly Jewish businessman who has sold his soul Golder is a superb creation Born into poverty on the Black Sea, he has clawed his way to fabulous wealth by speculating on gold and oil When the novel opens, he is at work in his magnificent Parisian apartment while his wife and beloved daughter, Joy, spend his money at their villa in Biarritz But Golder's security is fragile For years he has defended his business interests from cut-throat competitors Now his health is beginning to show the strain As his body betrays him, so too do his wife and child, leaving him to decide which to pursue:

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: Random House,PAPERBACK EDITION.SOME FOXING DUE TO AGE.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE 2008 Used An old man looks back on a chequered life with secret regrets, concealing a truth he will not reveal until the end Fire in the Blood is a small and beautiful chamber piece which starts quietly, lyrically, but then races away with revelations and narrative twists in a story about young women forced into marriages with old men, about mothers and daughters, stepmothers and stepdaughters, youthful passions and the regrets of old age, about peasant communities and the way they hide their secrets N??mirovsky looks at her characters, both young and old, with the same clear-eyed distance and humanity as she displayed in Suite Fran??aise, unpeeling layer after layer Atmospheric and haunting as Embers and with the crystalline perfection of Chekhov, Fire in the Blood is a gripping literary find "--publisher's website.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: PAPERBACK EDITION.SOME FOXING DUE TO AGE.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGERandom House, 2008 Used In 1903, Leon M - a devout terrorist - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee The assassination, he is told, must take place in public and be in most grandiose manner possible in order to strike the imagination of the people Posing as his newly appointed personal physician, Leon M takes up residence with Courliof in his summer house in the Iles and awaits instructionsBut over the course of his stay he is made privy to the inner world of Courliof - his failing health, his troubled domestic situation and, most importantly, the tyrannical grip that the Czar himself holds over all his Ministers, forcing them to obey him or suffer the most deadly punishmentsSet during a period of radical upheaval in European history, "The Courliof Affair" is an unsparing observation of human motives and the abuses of power, an elegy to lost world and an unflin.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: Random House,PAPERBACK EDITION.SOME FOXING DUE TO AGE.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE 2007 Used 'Le Bal' depicts the life of the Kampfs who, having recently gone up in the world thanks to luck with the stock, decide to throw a ball in order to launch themselves into society 'Snow in Autumn' pays homage Chekhov and chronicles the life of a devoted servant following her masters as they flee Moscow and emigrate to Paris.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: Chatto & Windus, PAPERBACK EDITION.LARGE SIZE SOFT COVER -.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE2008 Used All Our Worldly Goods reads like a prequel to Suite Frans ?aise, but is a perfect novel in its own right In haunting ways, this compelling novel prefigures Suite Frans?aise and some of the themes of Nemmirovskys great unfinished sequence of novels All Our Worldly Goods, though, is complete, and exquisitely so ? a perfect novel in its own right First published in France in 1947, after the authors death, it is a gripping story of family life and star-crossed lovers, set in France between 1910 and 1940 Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and the family patriarch, the tyrannical industrialist Julien Hardelot, provoking a family feud which cascades down the generations This is Balzac or The Forsyte Saga on a smaller, more intimate scale, the bourgeoisie observed close-up, with Nemmirovskys characteristically sly humour and clear-eyed compassion Full of drama and heartbreak, and telling observations of the devastating effects of two wars on a small town and an industrial family, N??mirovsky is at the height of her powers Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, the novel points out with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close those two wars were, how history repeated itself, tragically and shockingly The story opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy beach and ends with a changed world under Nazi occupation.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: Random House, PAPERBACK EDITION.LARGE SIZE SOFT COVER -.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE2011 Used Introspective, intense and poignant, this book is the most autobiographical of all Irene Nemirovsky's novels, now available in English for the first time Imbued with melancholy, and regret, it explores the troubled relationship between a young girl, her distant, self-absorbed mother and her mother's lover, Max We follow the family through the Great War and the Russian Revolution, as the young Helene grows from a dreamy, unhappy child into an angry young woman.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. London: Chatto & Windus, PAPERBACK EDITION.LARGE SIZE SOFT COVER -.WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE2006 Used Suite franaise is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irene Nemirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin In July 1942, having just completed the first two of the series, Nemirovsky was arrested as a Jew and detained at Pithiviers and then Auschwitz, where she was murdered, a victim of the Holocaust The notebook containing the two novels was preserved by her daughters but not examined until 1998 They were published in a single volume entitled Suite franaise in 2004.