All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky, Sandra Smith (Translator); 1947/2011. Softcover.

In haunting ways, this 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 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 generations.