A Girls Story

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnother 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 50 years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire. In the summer of 1958 18-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man’s and then he moves on leaving her without a “master” bereft.Now 50 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.