num_pages: 94
description: WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWritten in journal form Annie Ernaux's account of her mother's steady decline spans a period of nearly three years. When her mother first becomes ill Ernaux takes her in. Soon it becomes painfully obvious that professional help is needed. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease her mother enters a nursing home never to leave. As it explores the complexities of death and parent-child role reversal Ernaux's latest work takes its place on the shelf beside John Bayley's Elegy for Iris and Roger Kamenetz's Terra Infirma. As revealed by Ernaux the details of a loved one's deterioration have such emblematic force and terror that the particular becomes universal. - The New York Times Book Review
language: English
title: I Remain in Darkness
publisher: Seven Stories Press