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A never-before-translated collection by the bestselling author of Suite Fran aise
Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten gem-like stories mine the same terrain of N mirovsky's bestselling novel Suite Fran aise 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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- ISBN-13: 9780307476364
- ISBN-10: 0307476367
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: April 2010
- Dimensions: 7.96 x 5.54 x 0.88 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.65 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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A shining collection from a lost literary star
Fifty years after her death at Auschwitz in 1942, the daughter of Russian-French writer Irène Némirovsky discovered a treasure trove of the author’s lost works. Suite Français was published in France in 2004 and quickly became a bestseller, and Fire in the Blood followed soon after. Now, in Dimanche and Other Stories, we have a collection of 10 short stories from Némirovsky, all written between 1934 and 1942 and newly translated.
“Those Happy Shores” contrasts the disparate lives of two women in a bar. “Flesh and Blood” follows the failures and passions of four siblings as they attend to their sick mother. “The Unknown Soldier” uncovers a shocking family secret. And in “Brotherhood” a man on a train receives an encounter with his own Jewishness that disturbs the way he has ordered his world.
When Némirovsky was first published, editors marveled that such a young writer could produce such rich and wise work. After taking in these 10 shorts, readers will easily understand the literary world’s incredulity. The stories explore interpersonal tension and everyday intrigue in a way that’s graceful as a ballerina. There are lots of 20-year-old women, extramarital affairs, clashes between classes and mysterious family secrets, all captured with a keen eye.
It might be that detached, yet somehow all-seeing perspective that makes this collection so unique and valuable. Because in addition to being exquisitely written and full of page-turning drama, these stories provide an important window into France and Russia just before and during the early years of World War II. Némirovsky offers us a kind of early source material, one that’s imbued with humanity and artistic grace.
Delightfully vintage, yet fresh, Dimanche and Other Stories will satiate a variety of appetites—for literary short stories, obviously, as well as for international fiction. The book will also be welcomed by those with an interest in stories from World War II and the Holocaust. In a way, even though their author died tragically young, her words themselves are Holocaust survivors. They remain to tell stories that need to be told, and in the process light up our shelves with beautiful prose.
Jessica Inman writes from Oklahoma.
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A shining collection from a lost literary star
Fifty years after her death at Auschwitz in 1942, the daughter of Russian-French writer Irène Némirovsky discovered a treasure trove of the author’s lost works. Suite Français was published in France in 2004 and quickly became a bestseller, and Fire in the Blood followed soon after. Now, in Dimanche and Other Stories, we have a collection of 10 short stories from Némirovsky, all written between 1934 and 1942 and newly translated.
“Those Happy Shores” contrasts the disparate lives of two women in a bar. “Flesh and Blood” follows the failures and passions of four siblings as they attend to their sick mother. “The Unknown Soldier” uncovers a shocking family secret. And in “Brotherhood” a man on a train receives an encounter with his own Jewishness that disturbs the way he has ordered his world.
When Némirovsky was first published, editors marveled that such a young writer could produce such rich and wise work. After taking in these 10 shorts, readers will easily understand the literary world’s incredulity. The stories explore interpersonal tension and everyday intrigue in a way that’s graceful as a ballerina. There are lots of 20-year-old women, extramarital affairs, clashes between classes and mysterious family secrets, all captured with a keen eye.
It might be that detached, yet somehow all-seeing perspective that makes this collection so unique and valuable. Because in addition to being exquisitely written and full of page-turning drama, these stories provide an important window into France and Russia just before and during the early years of World War II. Némirovsky offers us a kind of early source material, one that’s imbued with humanity and artistic grace.
Delightfully vintage, yet fresh, Dimanche and Other Stories will satiate a variety of appetites—for literary short stories, obviously, as well as for international fiction. The book will also be welcomed by those with an interest in stories from World War II and the Holocaust. In a way, even though their author died tragically young, her words themselves are Holocaust survivors. They remain to tell stories that need to be told, and in the process light up our shelves with beautiful prose.
Jessica Inman writes from Oklahoma.
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