Dimanche and Other Stories - Irène Némirovsky; Translated by Bridget Patterson Fiction / General Downloadable Audio Book

Dimanche and Other Stories

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	Publisher :	Blackstone Audio Inc
	Author :	Irène Némirovsky; Translated by Bridget Patterson
	Narrator :	Cassandra Campbell

	Length :	8 hours 22 minutes (Unabridged)

Download Price :		$16.99

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“…her characters and stories are so vibrant and involving that the dominant impression her writing leaves is one of happiness.”—Harper’s “Ten luminous and newly translated stories by Némirovsky, who died at Auschwitz, expose the miseries that undermine happy families….these accomplished tales create worlds full of secrets and treacheries….In this superlative translation, Némirovsky's characters emerge full-fleshed, and her voice remains timeless and relevant.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] gorgeous collection….Elegant, magnetic, and devastating stories of marriage, mothers and daughters, youth and age, rich and poor. Each faceted, cutting tale exposes the barely concealed resentments and envy underlying marriages desiccated by routinely unfaithful husbands, martyred wives, and shiny, selfish children, especially beautiful daughters who hold their muted mothers in contempt….Némirovsky was an empathic, prescient, and boldly clinical dramatist in the mode of Chekhov, Maupassant, and Colette.”—Booklist “Extraordinary….Némirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.”—Washington Post Book World A collection of never-before-translated stories by the bestselling author of Suite Française, this is a gorgeous, gemlike volume with the same attention to detail that won Irène Némirovsky 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. Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev, Ukraine, 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. It became an international best-seller, with nearly a million copies in print in the United States alone.

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