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1) Getting lost
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation...
2) The years
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Available in English for the first time, the latest astonishing, bestselling, and award-winning book by Annie Ernaux. The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present -- even projections into the future -- photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from six decades of diaries. Local dialect,...
3) Shame
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life.
With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides...
"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon," begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life.
With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
"A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews). Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris." She...
6) Exteriors
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Taking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Young Man is Annie Ernaux's account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time- together with a sense that she is living her life backwards. Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of modern life that has received scant attention in literature. Recording her visits to a store near Paris for over a year, she captures the world that exists within its...
9) Les annees
Author
Series
Collection Folio volume 5000
Publisher
Gallimard
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Français
Description
"La photo en noir et blanc d'une petite fille en maillot de bain fonce, sur une plage de galets. En fond, des falaises. Elle est assise sur un rocher plat, ses jambes robustes etendues bien droites devant elle, les bras en appui sur le rocher, les yeux fermes, la tete legerement penchee, souriant. Une epaisse natte brune ramenee par-devant, l'autre laissee dans le dos. Tout revele le desir de poser comme les stars dans Cinemonde ou la publicite d'Ambre...