Dimanche and other stories / Irčne Némirovsky ; translated from the French by Bridget Patterson.

Author: Némirovsky, Irčne, 1903-1942.

Imprint:New York : Vintage Books, 2010.

Description293 p. ; 21 cm.

Note:"A Vintage International original"--T.p. verso.

Note:Originally published, with additional stories, in French as: Dimanche et autres nouvelles. Paris : Stock, c2000.

Note:Dimanche = Sunday -- Les rivages heureux = Those happy shores -- Liens du sang = Flesh and blood -- Fraternité = Brotherhood -- La femme de don Juan = Don Juan's wife -- Le sortilčge = The spell -- Le spectateur = The spectator -- Monsieur Rose = Mr. Rose -- La confidente = The confidante -- L'inconnu = The unknown soldier.

Note:Written between 1934 and 1942, moving from the drawing rooms of pre-war Paris to the lives of men and women in wartime France,these ten stories show : 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.

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