Némirovsky, Irène, 1903-1942.

Dimanche and other stories / Irène Némirovsk ; translated from the French by Bridget Patterson. - New York : Vintage Books, 2010. - 293 p. ; 21 cm.

"A Vintage International original"--T.p. verso. Originally published, with additional stories, in French as: Dimanche et autres nouvelles. Paris : Stock, c2000.

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.


Translated from the French.

9780307476364 (pbk.)


Short stories.


France--Fiction.

843.912 / NEM 2010