A woman

Author: Annie Ernaux
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: A series of contemporary French women's novels. This book selects three autobiographical novels by the renowned contemporary French writer Annie Léonore Blanche Ernaux. The works vividly depict, with delicate and poignant brushstrokes, the struggles of parents from humble backgrounds to free themselves and the next generation from the despised status of the socialbottom. The stories accurately and objectively recreate the vast differences in values among people from different social strata in contemporary France in terms of psychology, daily habits, interests, and hobbies. At the same time, they genuinely express, with immense pain and contradiction, the complex and unresolved emotions of love and hate for their parents and hometown.