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A Girl's Story
  • Published: 2 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809515
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $26.99

A Girl's Story

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7 Apr 2020
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2 July 2020
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Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize shortlisted author of The Years.

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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 season 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire. In the summer of 1958, 18-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man’s, and then he moves on, leaving her without a “master,” bereft.

Now, 50 years later, she realizes she can obliterate the intervening years and return to consider this young woman that she wanted to forget completely. And to discover that here, submerged in shame, humiliation, and betrayal, but also in self-discovery and self-reliance, lies the origin of her writing life.
  • Published: 2 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9781609809515
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $26.99
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About the authors

Annie Ernaux

Among the most influential and impactful writers in the world today, ANNIE ERNAUX was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. She has also won the Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place and both the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize and the Prix Formentor for her body of work. She was awarded the International Strega Prize, the French-American Translation Prize, and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation for The Years, which was also shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Her works include Cleaned Out, Do What They Say or Else, A Frozen Woman, A Man’s Place, A Woman’s Story, Simple Passion, Exteriors, Shame, “I Remain in Darkness,” Happening, Things Seen, Getting Lost, The Possession, The Use of Photography (with Marc Marie), The Years, The Other Girl, L’Atelier Noir, Retour à Yvetot, Look at the Lights, My Love, Le Vrai Lieu: Entretiens, A Girl’s Story, L’Ecriture comme un couteau, Hôtel Casanova and Other Brief Texts, The Young Man, and I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture.
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Alison L. Strayer

ALISON L. STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator. She won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, the Prix littéraire France-Québec, and the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in Paris.
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Praise for A Girl's Story

For The Years:
"The Years is an earnest, fearless book, a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism, for our period of absolute commodity fetishism." -Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
"The process of reading The Years is similar to a treasure box discovery. ...It is the kind of book you close after reading a few pages, carried away by the bittersweet taste it leaves in your mind. ...Ernaux transforms her life into history and her memories into the collective memory of a generation." -Los Angeles Review of Books
"The author of one of the most important oeuvres in French literature, Annie Ernaux's work is as powerful as it is devastating, as subtle as it is seething."-- Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy