{"product_id":"the-years-9781609807870-b","title":"The Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Annie Ernaux\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MixBZ\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: General Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize\u003cbr\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 \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","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45017404965015,"sku":"9781609807870","price":1301.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781609807870.webp?v=1769201689","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-years-9781609807870-b","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}