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- Paperback / softback | 80 pages
- 12.5 × 19.7 cm | 0
- 18 September 2019
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- United Kingdom
- English
€13.99
A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux’s attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman’s gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent.
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ISBN: 9781910695975
Book Format: Paperback / softback
Pages: 80
Dimensions: 12.5 × 19.7 cm
Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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