Annie Ernaux

A Woman's Story

Intimate account of mother's life and her struggle to survive

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Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux

French Nobel Prize-winning writer whose autofiction blurs memoir, sociology, and fiction to examine class, sex, and memory. The Years is a collective autobiography of France from 1941 to 2006. Her unflinching examinations of abortion, desire, and social shame have made her the most important French prose writer of her generation.

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