Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1910695270 ISBN 13: 9781910695272
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804270679 ISBN 13: 9781804270677
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. When she is with him, she replays scenes she has already lived through, feeling both ageless and closer to death. Laid like a palimpsest on the present, the past's immediacy pushes her to take a decisive step in her writing - producing, in turn, the need to expunge her lover. At once stark and tender, The Young Man is a taut encapsulation of Ernaux's relationship to time, memory and writing. In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, briefly, back into the 'scandalous girl' of her youth. At once stark and tender, The Young Man is a taut encapsulation of Ernaux's relationship to time, memory and writing. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804270709 ISBN 13: 9781804270707
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her diary, giving a name to her purpose in life as a writer. She returns to them in her stirring defence of literature and of political writing in her Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2022. To write of her own life, she asserts, is to 'shatter the loneliness of experiences endured and repressed'; to mine individual experience is to find collective emancipation. Ernaux's speech is a bold assertion of the capacity of writing to give people a sense of their own worth, and of one writer's commitment to bearing witness to life, its joys and its injustices. Published in book form for the first time, Annie Ernaux's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm inDecember 2022, translated by Alison L. Strayer. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1804271233 ISBN 13: 9781804271230
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'If there's any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,' says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse explains, he listens for texts that exist somewhere outside of himself in order to transcribe them before they disappear. With reverence and humility, Fosse traces his relationship to writing and celebrates the capacity of language to embrace the mystery, complexity and existential uncertainty of the human experience. 'It is only in the silence that you can hear God's voice,' he says, offering a key to his beloved works of drama and fiction. 'Maybe.' Published in book form for the first time, Jon Fosse'sNobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December2023, translated by Damion Searls. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1804270555 ISBN 13: 9781804270554
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, Ernaux seeks the truth behind an existence lived, for a time, entirely for someone else. In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux's Simple Passion documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804271020 ISBN 13: 9781804271025
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asle's great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosse's vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on.Aliss at the Fire, is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate. A haunting exploration of love and loss by the Beckett of the twenty-first century (Le Monde). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1804270539 ISBN 13: 9781804270530
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience. In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child. This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913097587 ISBN 13: 9781913097585
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for whom he is a 'mentally ill person' suffering from 'gender dysphoria', Preciado draws inspiration in his lecture from Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy', in which a monkey tells an assembly of scientists that human subjectivity is a cage comparable to one made of metal bars. Demonstrating the discipline's complicity with the ideology of sex, gender and sexual difference dating back to the colonial era, Preciado was heckled and booed and unable to finish.The lecture, filmed on smartphones, ended up published online, where fragments were transcribed, translated and published with no regard for exactitude. Eighteen months on, Can the Monster Speak? is published in a definitive translation for the first time. In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference. Causing a veritable outcry among the assembly, Preciado called for a radical transformation of psychoanalytic discourse and practices, denouncing its complicity with the ideology of sexual difference. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1913097404 ISBN 13: 9781913097400
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2017
ISBN 10: 1910695416 ISBN 13: 9781910695418
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1804270938 ISBN 13: 9781804270936
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan Fox argues that it has always been an essential mechanism of the arts, from the most wildly successful pop music and fashion through to the most recondite avenues of literature and the visual arts. Pretentiousness: Why it Matters unpacks the uses and abuses of the term, tracing its connections to theatre, politics and class, advocating critical imagination over knee-jerk accusations of elitism or simple fear of the new and the different. This book is a timely defence of pretentiousness as a necessity for innovation and diversity in our culture. What is pretentiousness? Why are we afraid of it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? Drawing on the author's own experiences growing up and working at the more radical edges of the arts, this book is a timely defence of pretentiousness as a necessity for innovation and diversity in our culture. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804271039 ISBN 13: 9781804271032
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates be-tween turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon it gets dark and starts to snow, but instead of going back to find help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscu-rity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest work of fiction by Jon Fosse, 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde). Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latestwork of fiction by Jon Fosse, 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde). Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1804270202 ISBN 13: 9781804270202
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Corbin College, not-quite-upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian-but not an historian of the Jews-is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies.'The Netanyahus is constructed with a brilliant comic grace that moves from the sly to the exuberant . The vision in this book is deeply original, making clear what a superb writer Joshua Cohen is.' - Colm Toibin'Absorbing, delightful, hilarious, breathtaking and the best and most relevant novel I've read in what feels like forever.' - New York Times Book Review Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the campus novel with the lecture, The Netanyahus is a wildly inventive, genre-bending comedy of blending, identity, and politics - 'An Account of A Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family' that finds Joshua Cohen at the height of his powers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804270563 ISBN 13: 9781804270561
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June,in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame, the probingstory of the twelve-year-old girl who will become AnnieErnaux, and the traumatic memory that will echo andresonate throughout her life.With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the force of violent memory to endure through time, to deter-mine the course of a life. My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon. Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become Annie Ernaux, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, United Kingdom, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1804270857 ISBN 13: 9781804270851
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. InWhat Is Mine, sociologist Jose Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didis work as a truck driver took him away from home for long stretches at a time as he crisscrossed the country and participated in huge infrastructure projectsincludingthe Trans-Amazonian Highway, a scheme spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time, undertaken throughbrutal deforestation. An observer of history, Didi also recounts the toll his work has taken on his health, from a heart attack in middle age to the cancer that defines his retirement.Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, uncovering parallels between cancer and capitalism both sustained by expansion, both embodiments of the gospel of growth at any cost and traces the distance that class has placed between him and his father.Influenced by authors such as Annie Ernaux and Svetlana Alexievich,What Is Mineis a moving, thought-provoking and brilliantly constructed examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1913097250 ISBN 13: 9781913097257
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko, an eccentric woman in her sixties, recounts the events surrounding the disappearance of her two dogs. She is reclusive, preferring the company of animals to people; shes unconventional, believing in the stars; and she is fond of the poetry of William Blake, from whose work the title of the book is taken. When members of a local hunting club are found murdered, Duszejko becomes involved in the investigation. By no means a conventional crime story, this existential thriller by one of Europes major humanist writers (Guardian) offers thought-provoking ideas on our perceptions of madness, injustice against marginalized people, animal rights, the hypocrisy of traditional religion, belief in predestination and caused a genuine political uproar in Tokarczuks native Poland. With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, UK, 2018
ISBN 10: 1910695769 ISBN 13: 9781910695760
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. A FINE UNMARKED BOOK.
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2021
ISBN 10: 1913097684 ISBN 13: 9781913097684
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books - the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.'Annie Ernaux is one of my favorite contemporary writers, original and true. Always after reading one of her books, I walk around in her world for months.' - Sheila Heti, author of Motherhood Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1804270113 ISBN 13: 9781804270110
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something like home.With It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track, legendary music critic IanPenman reaches for a vanished moment in musical history when cultures collided and a certain kind of cross-generational and 'cross-colour' awareness was born. His cast of characters includes the Mods, James Brown, CharlieParker, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, John Fahey, Steely Dan and Prince - black artists who were innovators, and white musicians who copied them for the mainstream. In 'prose that glides and shimmies and pivots on risky metaphors, low puns and highbrow reference points' (Brian Dillon, frieze), Ian Penman's first book in twenty years is cause for celebration. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2024
ISBN 10: 1804270946 ISBN 13: 9781804270943
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mother's condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the author's own social ascent.Mirroring A Man's Place, in which she narrates her father's slow rise to material comfort, A Woman's Story explores the ambiguous and unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, its fluctuation over the course of their lives, the alienating worlds that separate them and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute to the last thread connecting her to the world out of which she was born, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. A deeply affecting tribute to her mothers life and death by Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1913097579 ISBN 13: 9781913097578
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and why this murder occurred. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, Fernanda Melchor paints a moving portrait of lives governed by poverty and violence, machismo and misogyny, superstition and prejudice. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by Sophie Hughes. Written with an infernal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling, Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor's first novel to appear in English, is a formidable portrait of contemporary Mexico and its demons, brilliantly translated by the award-winning translator Sophie Hughes. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2019
ISBN 10: 1910695971 ISBN 13: 9781910695975
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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. Haunting and devastatingly poignant, I Remain in Darkness showcases Ernaux's unique talent for evoking life's darkest and most bewildering episodes. 'Acute and immediate, I Remain in Darkness is an unforgettable exploration of love, memory and the journey to loss.' -Eimear McBride, author of A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804270466 ISBN 13: 9781804270462
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Broken bowls, belligerent cows, swanky aubergines, trembling moonrises and horrifying sunsets, the physical world depicted in these stories is unsettling yet intimately familiar and soon takes on a life of its own. Captivated by the stellar charms of seclusion but restless with desire, the womans relationship with her surroundings becomes boundless and increasingly bewildering. Claire-Louise Bennetts startlingly original first collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving. Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the cusp of a coastal town. Claire-Louise Bennett's startlingly original debut collection slips effortlessly between worlds and is by turns darkly funny and deeply moving. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1913097870 ISBN 13: 9781913097875
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to porn, obsessively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor an attractive married woman and mother while Polo dreams about quitting his gruelling job as a gardener within the gated community and fleeing his overbearing mother and their narco-controlled village. Each facing the impossibility of getting what he thinks he deserves, Franco and Polo hatch a mindless and macabre scheme. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society fractured by issues of race, class and violence and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams. Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of our most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society fractured by issues of race, class and violence and how the myths, desires, and hardships of teenagers can tear life apart at the seams. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2018
ISBN 10: 1910695726 ISBN 13: 9781910695722
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2014
ISBN 10: 0992974712 ISBN 13: 9780992974718
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Becoming obsessed with the details of his fate, Critchley receives the missing, final box, which contains a maquette of Giulio Camillo's sixteenth-century Venetian memory theatre, a space supposed to contain the sum of all knowledge. That's when the hallucinations begin. Simon Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predicting the deaths of various philosophers in the archives of a deceased philosopher friend of his. Among them is a chart for Critchley himself, laying out in great detail the course of his life and eventual demise. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2022
ISBN 10: 1804270520 ISBN 13: 9781804270523
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirists defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and collective, and a new genre the collective autobiography in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 1804270245 ISBN 13: 9781804270240
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Veronica is late, and Julian is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, developing a novel about a man tending to a bonsai tree on the weekends. He is a narrator, an architect, a chronicler of other people's stories. But as the night stretches on before him, and the hours pass with no sign of Veronica, Julian finds himself caught up in the slipstream of the story of his life - of their lives together. What combination of desire and coincidence led them here, to this very night? What will the future - and possibly motherless - Daniela think of him and his stories? Why tell stories at all?The Private Lives of Trees, Alejandro Zambra's second novel, now published in the UK for the first time in a revised translation by Megan McDowell, overflows with his signature wit and his gift for crafting short novels that manage to contain whole worlds. The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a 'short and strikingly original' (New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and our loved ones - now published in the UK for the first time by Fitzcarraldo Editions. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2020
ISBN 10: 1913097366 ISBN 13: 9781913097363
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A Man's Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France. Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires.'Ernaux has inherited de Beauvoir's role of chronicler to a generation.' - Margaret Drabble Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernauxs father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernauxs cold observation in A Mans Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions, London, 2023
ISBN 10: 180427044X ISBN 13: 9781804270448
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence' (Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget. Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces, a profoundly moving recounting of her mother's death. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.