Name: The Years: (West end Edition)
Price: 257.00 ZAR
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Author: Annie Ernaux
ISBN: 9781839044496

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Physical Book

Author

Annie Ernaux

Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781839044496

The Years: (West end Edition)

Annie Ernaux (Author) · Nick Hern Books · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Years: (West end Edition)"

'Memory pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.' She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks... A child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and men's bodies. Click. An activist fighting for the right to choose. Click. A wife picking out a velvet sofa. Click. A mother taking her eldest to judo. Click. A lover, seducing a younger man. Click. A grandmother presenting her granddaughter to the camera. Click.The Years/Les années is Annie Ernaux's critically acclaimed 'masterpiece' (Guardian), charting a woman's personal and political life against the backdrop of a rapidly changing post-war Europe. Eline Arbo's inventive stage adaptation was premiered as De jaren by Het Nationale Theater in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022. It was first performed, in an English-language version by Stephanie Bain - after the translations by Alison L. Strayer and Tanya Leslie - at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2024, with a cast of five women collectively bringing to life the story of one woman, and a whole continent. This new edition of the play is published alongside the West End transfer in 2025.

Annie Ernaux

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Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 in the French region of Normandy. She grew up in the small town of Yvetot and studied literature at the University of Rouen. A teacher of that subject in high schools in Annecy and the Parisian suburbs, she currently lives near the French capital and works at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. At Tusquets Editores we have published Pure Passion, Shame, The Event, and The Place (Renaudot Prize, 1984). In 2019, she received the Formentor Prize for her body of work.

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