‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ The Nobel Prize winner addresses a memory from when she was twelve.
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An English translation of Ernaux's memoir about her father and life in small-town France, first published in 1984: a counterpart to 'A Woman's Story' published in English last year. Both are... read more
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"An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life"... If MFK's books are all gems, then this is a pearl. First published in 1941.
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An elderly woman in a home is losing her power of speech: a therapist delicately helps her to unburden herself of a secret... The dark horse of new French fiction.

