Dimanche and Other Stories

Irène Némirovsky, read by Cassandra Campbell, Blackstone Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $29.95 ISBN 978-1-4417-4868-3

Cassandra Campbell offers a fine, straightforward reading of the 10 stories Némirovsky wrote between 1934 and 1942, when she died at Auschwitz. Némirovsky’s themes are those of her bestselling Suite Française: the disintegration of France’s upper-class society, families, and individuals in Paris before the arrival of the Nazis, and Campbell’s portrayals of self-absorbed bourgeois Parisians are well defined without exaggeration and with an impeccable accent. A Vintage hardcover (Reviews, Mar. 1). (May)

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