Dimanche and Other Stories
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4.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Française
Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of Némirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Française: a keen eye for the details of social class; the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives; the manners and mannerisms of the French bourgeoisie; questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here we find the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.
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Cassandra Campbell offers a fine, straightforward reading of the 10 stories N mirovsky wrote between 1934 and 1942, when she died at Auschwitz. N mirovsky s themes are those of her bestselling Suite Fran aise: the disintegration of France s upper-class society, families, and individuals in Paris before the arrival of the Nazis, and Campbell s portrayals of self-absorbed bourgeois Parisians are well defined without exaggeration and with an impeccable accent. A Vintage hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 1).
