"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, …
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"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, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir "written" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the "I" for the "we" (or "they", or "one") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): "From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the "we" and impersonal pronouns.""--
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Les années
pocket book, 256 pages
French language
Published Jan. 1, 2010 by GALLIMARD, French and European Publications Inc.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-040247-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1124229834
- Goodreads:
- 7724290
Sich verlieren
Hardcover, 285 pages
German language
Published Feb. 1, 2003 by Goldmann.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-442-31003-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 76425309
Se perdre
Hardcover, 293 pages
French language
Published Feb. 7, 2001 by Editions Flammarion.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-076109-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 50493733
Årene
Hardcover, 256 pages
Norwegian (Bokmål) language
Published April 16, 2020 by Gyldendal.
- ISBN:
- 978-82-05-53344-8Copied ISBN!
The years
Paperback
English language
Published Oct. 20, 2022 by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-80427-052-3Copied ISBN!
Se Perdre
mass market paperback, 376 pages
French language
Published July 16, 2002 by Gallimard.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-042159-6Copied ISBN!
Gli anni
Paperback
Italian language
Published May 14, 2015 by L'orma.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-98038-16-9Copied ISBN!
Los años
Paperback, 336 pages
Spanish language
Published Sept. 11, 2019 by Editorial Cabaret Voltaire.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-949414-5-0Copied ISBN!
Els anys
Paperback, 224 pages
Published Sept. 1, 2019 by Angle Editorial.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-17214-86-9Copied ISBN!
Els anys
Paperback, 224 pages
Catalan language
Published Sept. 1, 2019 by Angle Editorial.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-17214-86-9Copied ISBN!
De jaren
Paperback
Dutch language
Published Oct. 6, 2020 by De Arbeiderspers.
- ISBN:
- 978-90-295-4065-0Copied ISBN!
Os Anos
Paperback
Portuguese language
Published by Três Estrelas.
- ISBN:
- 978-85-68493-56-4Copied ISBN!
De jaren
Paperback
Dutch language
Published Oct. 6, 2020 by De Arbeiderspers.
- ISBN:
- 978-90-295-4065-0Copied ISBN!
Getting lost
English language
Published April 16, 2022 by Seven Stories Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-64421-219-6Copied ISBN!
Lata
240 pages
Polish language
Published April 16, 2022 by Czarne.
- ISBN:
- 978-83-8191-385-0Copied ISBN!
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