Renowned French memoirist Annie Ernaux embarks on a defining work, narrating the period from 1941 to 2006 while considering the nuances of memory and incorporating the media artefacts, headlines, slogans and shifting dialects of each historical chapter to intertwine private and collective experience
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At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.
