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Dimanche and Other Stories
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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.
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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Amanda Kenney
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“A strong group of short stories from Nemirovsky. The focus is on women's experiences, especially with the men in their lives. We have teenagers looking to get married, mothers with small children, husbands, and mother-in-laws, and mothers with teenagers, empty nests, and grown children. I feel like these stories made concrete how similar my grandparents and even great-grandparents experiences were to my own, and that the 30s and 40s were more modern than it used to seem. This is a good choice if you want slice of life for women from that time period. NB - By the end, the war appears, and the reading was a bit harder given current politics and Nemirovsky's own story.”
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About Irene Nemirovsky
Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev in 1903 into a wealthy banking family and emigrated to France during the Russian Revolution. After attending the Sorbonne in Paris she began to write and swiftly achieved success with David Golder, which was followed by more than a dozen other books. Throughout her lifetime she published widely in French newspapers and literary journals. She died in Auschwitz in 1942. More than sixty years later, Suite Française, was published posthumously, for the first time, in 2006.
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