A review by ruthiella
The Fires of Autumn by Irène Némirovsky

2.0

I very much liked the opening scene of this book which was that of bourgeois family in prewar Paris having Sunday lunch in their crowded dining room and then taking a walk along the Champs Elysee. It was wonderfully atomospheric. But the promise of that scene wasn’t carried through for me throughout the rest of the book. I though the core story was dull in content and in style. Ultimately, I found the book interesting only for having been written by someone who experienced WWI and WWII firsthand.