All Our Worldly Goods

All Our Worldly Goods Reads Like a Prequel to Suite Francaise, but is a Perfect Novel in Its Own Right.
In Haunting Ways, This Compelling Novel Prefigures Suite Francaise and Some of the Themes of Nemirovsky's 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 Author's 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 Nemirovsky's 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