A woman's story

Une Femme

◇Anne Erno, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, "her own anthropologist," and a representative feminist writer◇A brief and painful "Requiem" dedicated to a woman and a mother
◇The simplified Chinese version is newly revised and released, and the translation is carefully polished to showcase the writing style of the original ◇Thousands of men and (especially) women have found their own reflections in her uncompromising writing ◆Highly recommended: Erno "revealed the roots, barriers and collective constraints of personal memory with courage and the acumen of a clinician", and she "consistently examined lives with huge differences in gender, language and class from different perspectives."
——Anne Erno, Nobel Prize Committee of the Swedish Academy of Letters, is the queen of new autobiographical literature.
—Time Magazine
It is reminiscent of Camus’s The Outsider and Simone de Beauvoir’s classic memoir, Death in Peace.
Erno’s recollection of her mother is a minimalist revelation, concise and sharp, piercing the heart with the precision of a surgeon’s scalpel.
——Los Angeles Weekly Reader
This autobiographical novel is about one specific woman, but it also speaks to every woman. It vividly depicts the harsh realities of old age for a once vibrant and independent woman. Never sentimental, always restrained, this is a deeply moving story of mothers and daughters, youth and age, dreams and reality.
—Kirkus Reviews
Synopsis: "A Woman's Story" is Anne Ernaux's moving account of mothers and daughters, youth and aging, dreams and reality. After her mother's death from Alzheimer's, the author embarks on a daunting journey back in time, seeking to capture the real woman, the woman who existed independently of her daughter, the woman who was born in a small town in Normandy and died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris.
She explores the fragile yet unshakeable bond between mother and daughter, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable reality that we all must lose those we love. In this quietly powerful tribute, Erno seeks to do her mother the greatest justice: to portray her as herself. As the author says, "Now that I write about my mother, it's as if it were my turn to re-birth her."

2022-10-01

上海人民出版社

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