In store now! The Years by Annie Ernaux
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The inimitable Annie Ernaux spent many years composing what is considered to be her greatest work: The Years. Beautifully translated by Alison L. Strayer, The Years recounts 65 years of Ernaux’s life. Her ability to confound through description, and her ability to give shape to the messiness of her own life is one of her greatest draws, instilling in the reader a renewed perception of the world around them, and the confluences of events which comprise our lives. A wonderful work of non-fiction, like nothing else in print.
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The Years by Annie Ernaux
Paperback £9.99
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and communal, and a new genre – the collective autobiography – in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.
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