"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,...

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...

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.

"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...

"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...