{"product_id":"the-years-paperback","title":"The Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnnie Ernaux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlison L. Strayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present--even projections into the future--photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e On its 2008 publication in France, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir \"written\" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the \"I\" for the \"we\" (or \"they\", or \"one\") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): \"From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the \"we\" and impersonal pronouns.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCo-winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of work\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the \u003ci\u003eCentre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books, in particular \u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman's Story\u003c\/i\u003e, have become contemporary classics in France. Ernaux won the prestigious \u003ci\u003ePrix Renaudot\u003c\/i\u003e for \u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003ewhen it was first published in French in 1984, and the English edition became a New York Times Notable Book. Other New York Times Notable Books include \u003ci\u003eSimple Passion \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Woman's Story, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was also a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize Finalist. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eErnaux's most recent work, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e, has received the Françoise-Mauriac Prize of the French Academy, the Marguerite Duras Prize, the Strega European Prize, the French Language Prize, and the Télégramme Readers Prize. The English edition, translated by Alison L. Strayer, won the 31st Annual French-American Translation Prize for non-fiction and the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize. Her new book, \u003ci\u003eA Girl's Story, \u003c\/i\u003ewill be out from Seven Stories in 2020. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eALISON STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, and the Prix litteraire France-Quebec. She lives in Paris.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 21, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Man Booker International Prize (2019)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184849240313,"sku":"9781609807870","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QXdUTStFOGNPYWdURmR0ekVFRzlRQT09.webp?v=1767801819","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-years-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}