{"product_id":"years-book-annie-ernaux-9781609807870","title":"The Years","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e One of the\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present-even projections into the future-photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e On its 2008 publication in France, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e was in many ways a departure- both an intimate memoir \"written\" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the \"I\" for the \"we\" (or \"they\", or \"one\") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book)- \"From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the \"we\" and impersonal pronouns.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCo-winner of the2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of work\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2016 Strega European Prize\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49765438947601,"sku":"CIN1609807871VG","price":8.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49778215158033,"sku":"CIN1609807871G","price":4.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49919939936529,"sku":"CIN1609807871A","price":9.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50157464092945,"sku":"GOR013874554","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51039760384273,"sku":"NIN9781609807870","price":19.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51769271189777,"sku":"GOR014395849","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108855968017,"sku":"GOR010148420","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1609807871.jpg?v=1751310087","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/years-book-annie-ernaux-9781609807870","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}