Tag Archives: Irène Némirovsky Year-Long

2017: Year in Review
2017 was a good reading year for me. I planned on reading 52 books, but ended up reading 71! 😀 I wasn’t able to meet all the goals I set for myself though. But I think I completed at least 90% of it, which is good enough. My biggest project was reading Irène Némirovsky’s works. I […]

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
I saved Suite Française, the novel that revived the world’s interest in Irène Némirovsky when it was published close to six decades after her death, for last. Suite Française is the first two parts of what is considered Némirovsky’s masterpiece; a five-part novel she had in mind that would have taken the model of Beethoven’s […]

Fire in the Blood by Irène Némirovsky
Fire in the Blood‘s narrator, Silvio leads a quiet life in a small farming village in France. He had spent his youth traveling the world with his string of exotic lovers, but now he is old and lives by himself. The novella begins with a visit paid to Silvio by Helen, his distant cousin, with […]

The Fires of Autumn by Irène Némirovsky
In 1914 when WWI is declared, Bernard Jacquelain is only a young boy of seventeen. He is full of patriotism, and in the naive belief that the war would end in three months he voluntarily joins the war to fight for the honor of France. But three months turn into four years, and when Bernard […]

All Our Worldly Goods by Irène Némirovsky
All Our Worldly Goods is a story of love; love that comes in many forms. It begins with the romance between Pierre and Agnes, who were next door neighbors growing up in the provincial town of Saint-Elme in France. Their love and commitment to each other get tested very early on, as Pierre’s industrious, tyrannical […]