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