num_pages: 160
description: WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnother masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux the Man Booker International Prizeshortlisted author of The Years. In A Girls Story Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by anothers will and desire. In the summer of 1958 eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a mans 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.
language: English
title: A Girl's Story
publisher: Seven Stories Press