All Our Worldly Goods

In haunting ways, this gorgeous novel prefigures Irène Némirovsky’s masterpiece Suite Française . Set in France between 1910 and 1940 and first published in France in 1947, five years after the author’s death,  All Our Worldly Goods  is a gripping story of war, family life and star-crossed lovers. Pierre and Agnes marry for love against the wishes of his parents and his grandfather, the tyrannical family patriarch. Their marriage provokes a family feud that cascades down the generation