{"product_id":"the-years","title":"The Years","description":"WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\n\nOne of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century\n\nShortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize\n\nConsidered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008\n\nThe Years 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.\n\nLocal 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.\n\nOn its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years 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.\"\n\nCo-winner of the 2018 French-American Foundation Translation Prize in Nonfiction\nWinner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of work\nWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1609807871\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: PKV.1609807871.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Ernaux, Annie|Strayer, Alison L.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: A well-loved companion. Corners and cover might show a little wear, and you could find some notes or highlights. The dust jacket might be MIA, it might have been a library book and extras aren't guaranteed—but the story's all there!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Aspen Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52644997660959,"sku":"PKV.1609807871.G","price":3.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0894\/0470\/3007\/files\/1609807871-0.jpg?v=1782666691","url":"https:\/\/www.aspenbookco.com\/products\/the-years","provider":"Aspen Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}