The Penguin Book of French Short Stories: From Colette to Marie NDiayeA major celebration of the French short story across the twentieth century. The second volume takes the reader through the tumultuous twentieth century in the company of writers including Simone de Beauvoir and Maryse Conde, Patrick Modiano and Virginie Despentes, covering world wars, revolutions and the horrors of the motorway service station. Along the way we meet electronic brains, she wolves, a sadistic Cinderella, ancestors, infidels,

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