Dimanche and Other Stories - Softcover

Nemirovsky, Irene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903155770 ISBN 13: 9781903155776

Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Dimanche and Other Stories

About this title

Review:

“Luminous. . . . These accomplished tales create worlds full of secrets and treacheries. . . . “Flesh and Blood” is a masterpiece of familial subterfuge. . . . In this superlative translation, Némirovsky’s characters emerge full-fleshed, and her voice remains timeless and relevant.”
—"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
Praise for Irène Némirovsky
“Extraordinary. . . . Némirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.”
—"The Washington Post Book World"
 
“Stunning. . . . [Némirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and inclusive fiction that conflict has produced.”
—"The New York Times Book Review"
 
“Némirovsky’s scope is like that of Tolstoy: She sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affec

"Luminous. . . . These accomplished tales create worlds full of secrets and treacheries. . . . "Flesh and Blood" is a masterpiece of familial subterfuge. . . . In this superlative translation, NEmirovsky's characters emerge full-fleshed, and her voice remains timeless and relevant."
--"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)
Praise for IrEne NEmirovsky
"Extraordinary. . . . NEmirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity."
--"The Washington Post Book World"
"Stunning. . . . [NEmirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisive fiction that conflict has produced."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"NEmirovsky's scope is like that of Tolstoy: She sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest."
--"O: The Oprah Magazine"

Luminous. . . . These accomplished tales create worlds full of secrets and treacheries. . . . Flesh and Blood is a masterpiece of familial subterfuge. . . . In this superlative translation, Nemirovsky s characters emerge full-fleshed, and her voice remains timeless and relevant.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Praise for Irene Nemirovsky
Extraordinary. . . . Nemirovsky achieve[s] her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity.
The Washington Post Book World
Stunning. . . . [Nemirovsky] wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and incisivefiction that conflict has produced.
The New York Times Book Review
Nemirovsky s scope is like that of Tolstoy: She sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest.
O: The Oprah Magazine"

About the Author:

Irene Nemirovsky 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 Francaise, was published posthumously, for the first time, in 2006."

About this edition

• Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1903155770
• ISBN 13: 9781903155776
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280