The Years

The Years 9.0
In the book, Ernaux writes about herself in the third person (elle, or "she" in English) for the first time, providing a vivid look at French society just after the Second World War until the early 2000s. It is the moving social story of a woman and of the evolving society she lived in. With this feature of book, Edmund White described it as a "collective autobiography", in his review for The New York Times.

  • Sparsh Hardik Sparsh Hardik 04 July 2023 9.0

    I am still going through it. This one isn't an easy read. It demands mindfulness about the past and its traces, and how the world used to be and how it is now. There is no apparent visible plot or a central character, yet there is a story, one that covers generations.

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Annie Ernaux was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory".

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