{"product_id":"dimanche-and-other-stories","title":"Dimanche and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/7642\/5795\/files\/for_Dimanche.png?v=1593110912\u0026amp;width=700\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTRANSLATED BY BRIDGET PATTERSON\u003cbr\u003eWITH A PUBLISHER'S NOTE\u003cbr\u003e280pp\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781903155776\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIrène Némirovsky, b.1903, has become one of France’s most famous writers. But after her death in 1942 she was virtually forgotten. It was only with the rediscovery of the manuscript of her novel \u003cem\u003eSuite Française \u003c\/em\u003ein a suitcase and its publication in France in 2004 and in the UK and USA in 2006 that her name started to become as well-known as it is today.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNémirovsky was brought up in Tsarist Russia, but after the Revolution her family escaped to France, where they lived a comfortable bourgeois life in Paris and in Biarritz. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eDavid Golder\u003c\/em\u003e, came out when she was 26 and she became instantly famous. The book was a penetrating glimpse of a world she knew well, the circle of successful or not-so-successful Russian Jewish businessmen, speculating ruthlessly in oil and minerals. David Golder is appallingly treated by his wife: she owes something to Némirovsky’s mother (from whom she was estranged most of her adult life). The book’s enormous success was based on the directness of its language, including crudities unusual in good literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut none of the later novels were as successful as \u003cem\u003eDavid Golder\u003c\/em\u003e and Némirovsky and her husband had two daughters to support, so she started to write short stories. The ten included in \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimanche \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eare everything that a short story should be: beautifully written novels in miniature, fascinating, profound, all this and more. As in a Chekhov short story, little happens but everything happens. Whether describing the impatience of a girl waiting for her lover, the tortured relationships of a large family, or the emotions of someone fleeing the Nazis, Némirovsky is always an extremely astute observer, delicate, perceptive and ironic.                                                \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available as a Persephone e-book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEndpaper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Rear Window' 1938, an artificial silk satin manufactured by Coudurier, Fructus and Descher, Lyon. \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eThis endpaper was designed and manufactured at the time the stories were written. It is domestic but at the same time a little menacing. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Irène Némirovsky","offers":[{"title":"None","offer_id":54098780422451,"sku":"iue1789694622074","price":28.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tissue\/Endpaper","offer_id":54098780455219,"sku":"fdm1789694622075","price":31.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cambridge Imprint paper","offer_id":54098780487987,"sku":"tqx1789694622076","price":31.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Reusable fabric napkin","offer_id":54098780520755,"sku":"jcd1789694622077","price":40.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/0578\/4627\/files\/dimanche-and-other-stories_1.jpg?v=1789694625","url":"https:\/\/sandstepclad.shop\/products\/dimanche-and-other-stories","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}