Shame -- Annie Ernaux - Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon, begins Shame, the probing story of the 12 year old girl who will become the author herself, and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life.

With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.

Author: Annie Ernaux
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 06/09/1998
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.33lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.59w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781583220184

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly Best Books 01/01/1998 pg. 45

About the Author
Born in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d'Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man's Place and A Woman's Story, have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for A Man's Place when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The English edition of A Woman's Story was a New York Times Notable Book.