Winner of the Nobel Prizefor Literature 2022
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019
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 collective,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 according to the New York Times'a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism'and a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781910695784Dimensions: 195 x 127 mm
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'The Years is a revolution,not only in the art of autobiography but in art itself. Annie Ernaux's book blends memories,dreams,facts and meditations into a unique evocation of the times in which we lived,and live.'- John Banville
Annie Ernaux
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022,Annie Ernaux a critically acclaimed French memoirist and author,best known for her luminous Booker International Prize-shortlisted The Years.
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