Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2019 · Winner · for the translation by Alison L. Strayer
International Booker Prize 2019 · Shortlist · for the translation by Alison L. Strayer

The Years

Name: Les Années
ISBN: 9782070779222

Les Années

Annie Ernaux (born 1940)

Translated by Alison L. Strayer

In English

The Years

Fitzcarraldo Editions · United Kingdom · 20 June 2018 · Paperback

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Seven Stories Press · United States · 2017

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The Years

Fitzcarraldo Editions · United Kingdom · 2022

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An old snapshot from 1949 shows a smiling girl in a swimming costume on a rock by the sea. From such pictures, and from what events, words and objects leave behind, the book lets the decades pass from just after the war to our time, telling one woman's life not as 'I' but through the shared memories of her generation.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

241 pages in the original

Genres

Autofiction, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, 1940s–2000s

First published

2008 by Gallimard

Author's age

68 when first published

ISBN

9782070779222 (original)

9781609807870 (Seven Stories Press, United States)

9781910695784 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)

9781804270523 (Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom)

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