The Young Man (Ernaux Annie)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior. "A sublime book." --Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle Here, in a breathtakingly short book, Ernaux recounts a relationship that made her become again--for several months--the "scandalous girl" of her younger years. The book takes place in Rouen, where Ernaux studied in the early 1960s, and begins in a student apartment, where A. lives--we only know her lover's initial. The windows of his apartment look out at the hospital where Ernaux experienced her secret abortion thirty years prior. A. takes the narrator back to memories her own youth and makes her feel ageless, outside of time--she has the sense that she is living her life backwards. Here Ernaux again explores shame--she
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