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1 - The Years
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European PrizeConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and is considered in French Studies... |
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2 - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
Ernaux, Annie - SEVEN STORIES
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Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author of The Years. In Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Annie Ernaux revisits the night 50 years earlier when she found herself submerged and controlled by another person's... |
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3 - Exteriors
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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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. |
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4 - Simple Passion
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookIn 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... |
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5 - A Man's Place
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookAnnie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown... |
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6 - Things Seen (French Voices)
Annie Ernaux - Bison Books
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Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature "Annie Ernaux's work," wrote Richard Bernstein in the New York Times, "represents a severely pared-down Proustianism, a testament to the persistent, haunting and melancholy quality of memory." In the New York Times Book... |
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7 - Happening
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux... |
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8 - A Woman's Story
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book"A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews) Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through... |
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9 - Shame
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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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... |
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10 - The Possession
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURESelf-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,... |
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11 - "I Remain in Darkness"
Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAn extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency. I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie's attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then,... |
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12 - Cleaned Out (French Literature Series)
Annie Ernaux - Dalkey Archive Press
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Cleaned Out tells the story of Denise Lesur, a 20-year-old woman suffering the after-effects of a back-alley abortion. Alone in her college dorm room, Denise attempts to understand how her suffocating middle-class upbringing has brought her to such an awful present. Ernaux, one of France's... |
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