Dimanche and Other Stories

Name: Dimanche and Other Stories
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Irne Nmirovsky; Translated by Bridget Paterson
ISBN: 9781441748737

Author: Irne Nmirovsky; Translated by Bridget Paterson

Narrator: Cassandra Campbell

Unabridged: 8 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/21/2010

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

A collection of neverbeforetranslated stories by the bestselling author of Suite Franaise, this is a gorgeous, gemlike volume with the same attention to detail that won Irne Nmirovsky so many fans. Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten stories mine the same terrain as her bestselling novels: 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; and questions of religion and personal identity. Moving from the drawing rooms of prewar Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France, here is the beautiful work of a writer at the height of her tragically short career.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ali

Persephone publishes a number of collections of short stories – and they are generally the kind of short stories I love. Dimanche and other stories were all written in the 1930’s and 40’s but not published in English until 2000. This is a truly wonderful collection, beautifully written, atmospheric......more

Goodreads review by Cristina

Buena recopilación de relatos que muestran el modo de escribir y la temática de la autora. Yo casi lo he leído de tirón, pero es de esos libros que viene bien tener para ojear de vez en cuando. Relatos como "El desconocido", "La Ogresa", "Fraternidad", "Domingo"...son representativos de una autora que......more

Goodreads review by Schmacko

Continuing my obsessive reading of Irène Némirovsky, I picked up a collection of her short stories, Dimanche (Sunday). These brief writings—mostly from the 30s and early 40s—have just recently been translated from Némirovsky’s French into English. Here, in ten short tales, we get a clear sense of a......more