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I Remain in Darkness by Annie Ernaux
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother--and of both women's strength and resiliency--recounts Annie's attempt to first help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease and, then, when that proves futile, bear witness to the older woman's gradual decline and her own e ...Show more
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Published in book form for the first time, Annie Ernaux's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm inDecember 2022, translated by Alison L. Strayer. WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diar ...Show more
La Place by Anne Ernaux; Annie Ernaux; Pierre-Louis Fort; Olivier Tomasini
$32.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
La Place looks at a daughter's relationship with her father. In a fragmented and retrospective way the narrator describes her feelings of separation and betrayal that arise when education and marriage place her in a social class with different values, language, tastes and behaviour. She explores the way ...Show more
Look at the Lights, My Love by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (Translator)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A meditation on the big-box superstore, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux. For half a century, French writer Annie Ernaux has restlessly explored stories and subjects often considered unworthy of artistic reflection. In this exquisite meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the ...Show more
Shame by Annie Ernaux; Tanya Leslie (translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. Wi ...Show more
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married foreigner wh ...Show more
The Possession by Annie Ernaux; Anna Moschovakis (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Self-regard, in the works of Annie Ernaux, is always an excruciatingly painful and exact process. Here, she revisits the peculiar kind of self-fulfillment possible when we examine ourselves in the aftermath of a love affair, and sometimes, even, through the eyes of the lost beloved.
The Years by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International PrizeConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate.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, ad ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux; Alison L. Strayer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Co-winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in NonfictionWinner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller whe ...Show more