The Third Persephone Book of Short Stories

Persephone Books publie cette semaine leur 3ème recueil de nouvelles (ces recueils font partie de leurs meilleures ventes).

Elles ont posté un descriptif qui me donne très envie :

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Stories featured in The Third Persephone Book of Short Stories include:

-‘Pluck’ by Gertrude Colmore (1913): a suffragette upends the expectations of a man in a teashop by saving a child from drowning in Regent’s Canal.

-‘Le Spectateur’ (1939) by Irène Némirovsky: an American leaving Paris at the outbreak of World War Two is bombed out of his complacency by a torpedo hitting the ship carrying him away.

-‘People Don’t Want Us’ by Janet Lewis (1946): a Japanese family living in suburban California experience a shift in the way their neighbours treat them in the immediate aftermath of Pearl Harbour.

-‘An Evening to Remember’ by Rosamunde Pilcher (1985): a man hoping for a promotion invites his boss round to his house for dinner, but he comes on the wrong day.

-‘Anniversary’ by Sian James (1990): a new mother attends a dinner party then begins a love affair with the man who gives her and her baby a lift home.