Tři ženy žijící ve třech různých světadílech, tři osudy: Indka, která patří k nejnižší společenské vrstvě – Italka, jež zdědí rodinnou firmu – Kanaďanka, která má skvělou kariéru v právnické firmě. Všechny tři spojuje touha po důstojném životě. Nikdy se spolu nesetkají, nevědí o sobě; a přesto se mezi nimi vytvoří intimní pouto – symbolické pouto vzpoury proti nepřízni osudu.
The second instalment in the million-copy bestselling Nazi spy series for fans of Dan Brown, Steve Berry and Wilbur Smith
All Our Worldly Goods reads like a prequel to Suite Française , but is a perfect novel in its own right. In haunting ways, this compelling novel prefigures Suite Française and some of the themes of Némirovsky’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 Némirovsky’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 town and an industrial family, Némirovsky is at the height of her powers. Taut, evocative and beautifully paced, the novel points out with heartbreaking detail and clarity how close those two wars were, how history repeated itself, tragically and shockingly. The story opens in the Edwardian era, on a fashionable Normandy beach and ends with a changed world under Nazi occupation.
- J'ai vecu la vie de mon ami le chat-tigre. La jungle qui tue ne m'a pas eu, elle me fera grace parce que je l'aime d'un amour fervent, parce que je lui dois tout, parce qu'elle m'a appris a etre libre. La jungle est l'ennemi loyal et sur, qui frappe en face, qui prend a bras-le-corps. L'adversaire hideux et bete, qui torture et qui fuit, le plus redoutable ennemi dans la jungle c'est l'homme... -"