{"product_id":"all-our-worldly-goods-9780099520443","title":"All Our Worldly Goods","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003eSuite Française\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePierre and Agnès 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.  Even when war is imminent and Pierre is called up, the old man is unforgiving. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, \u003ci\u003eAll Our Worldly Goods\u003c\/i\u003e points up with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close were those two wars, how history repeated itself, tragically, shockingly...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A remarkable novel...beautifully translated... Her voice, compassionate yet always shrewd, with its sharp portrait of France at war and during the optimistic and confused Twenties and early Thirties, is always distinctive'' \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gorgeous novel - witty, tender and true * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable novel...beautifully translated... Her voice, compassionate yet always shrewd, with its sharp portrait of France at war and during the optimistic and confused Twenties and early Thirties, is always distinctive * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eNémirovsky's great bourgeois tragedy is modest in scale but epic in scope. Her highly distinctive style, the delicate but relentless accretion of finely observed detail, produces a story in which universal cataclysm mirrored in apparently insignificant personal destiny, to extraordinary resonant effect -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA coolly crafted traditional family novel -- A S Byatt * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eNémirovsky's last stories are a living history of the occupation, written in real time * Sunday Times *","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151074390359,"sku":"9780099520443","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-our-worldly-goods-9780099520443","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}