Dimanche and Other Stories by Irčne Némirovsky

Written between 1934 and 1942, these ten short stories resound with the same rich resonance as Némirovsky’s bestselling novel Suite Française. In these stories, Némirovsky expertly conveys the nuances of social class, the tensions that arise between mothers and daughters and husbands and wives, the characters and characteristics of the French bourgeoisie, as well as questions of religion and identity. Némirovsky’s stories take her reader through the streets of pre-war Paris and into the lives of men and women in wartime France. Dimanche and Other Stories capture the beauty and skill of Némirovsky at the height of her tragically short career.