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A Girl's Story
A Girl's Story | Annie Ernaux
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Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prizeshortlisted author of The Years. In A Girls Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by anothers will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a mans, and then he moves on, leaving her without a master, bereft. Now, fifty 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.
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Amor4Libros
A Girl's Story | Annie Ernaux
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Mehso-so

4th Ernaux and I just couldn‘t connect with this one. I couldn‘t figure out what I was reading until about 50%. Only reason why I didn‘t bail on this one was because it was a short read.

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Amor4Libros
A Girl's Story | Annie Ernaux
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Time to read some Ernaux… Been trying to read one of her books every couple of months.

Also, just realized that it will be the first time I read an English translation of her books…Always picked up the Spanish translation before.

10 min update: Searched my Kindle and I do have it in Spanish❤️😅🙌🏽

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ephemeralwaltz
A Girl's Story | Annie Ernaux
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Another extraordinary autobiographical piece by Annie Ernaux. Looking back at her years as a teenager, Ernaux examines the memories she has of her first shared night with a man, her sexual awakening and how she perceived and received her own desires. Through her particular use of fragmented writing, she connects the past with how it affected her relationship with herself and her body in the future.

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