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A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux
37.00 NZD
Category: History
Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl's Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another's will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ern ...Show more
Exteriors by Annie Ernaux
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
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.
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lost is a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair. Getting Lost is the diary kept by ...Show more
I Will Write To Avenge My People by Annie Ernaux
23.00 NZD
Category: Anthology/essay
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
Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux
23.00 NZD
Category: Literary fiction
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 Years by Annie Ernaux
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
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