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And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment, raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her happiness, slowly ebb under the weight of her daily routine. The very condition that everyone around her seems to consider normal and admirable for a woman is killing her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile each of Ernaux's books contain an autobiographical element,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Frozen Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, one of Ernaux's early works, concentrates the spotlight unflinchingly on the author herself. Mixing affection, rage and bitterness,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Frozen Woman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshows us Ernaux's developing art when she still relied on traditional narrative, before the emergence of the shortened form that has since become her trademark.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53088484753717,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/Screenshot2026-07-03at10.37.29AM.png?v=1783100284"},{"product_id":"a-girls-story-by-annie-ernaux","title":"A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Girl’s Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she found herself overpowered by another’s will and desire. In the summer of 1958, eighteen-year-old Ernaux submits her will to a man’s, 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, is the vital origin of her writing life, her writer’s identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53088511525173,"sku":null,"price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/GirlsStory_coverREV-1-stickered-f_feature-838fb73424616f74806cbccb765a8a42.png?v=1783100420"},{"product_id":"a-mans-place-by-annie-ernaux-1","title":"A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnnie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. 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She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother,\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eA Woman's Story\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53088543342901,"sku":null,"price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/AMansPlace_cover2022-f_feature-5bdb74a2312325697cd1265ea52a2437.png?v=1783100514"},{"product_id":"a-womans-story-by-annie-ernaux","title":"A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Woman's Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Annie Ernaux's \"deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Upon her mother's death from Alzheimers, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to \"capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris.” She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love. In this quietly powerful tribute, Ernaux attempts to do her mother the greatest justice she can: to portray her as the individual she was. 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With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53088561987893,"sku":null,"price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/SimplePassion_coverREV2022-1-stickered-f_feature-1ef9db744bc7a4f1eb1e14645fb46ec1.jpg?v=1783100874"},{"product_id":"happening-by-annie-ernaux","title":"Happening by Annie Ernaux","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eHappening\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecounts what it was like to be a young woman whose life changed — and world ominously narrowed — in 1963 with an unwanted pregnancy. . . . It feels urgently of the moment.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"synopsis\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOfficial Selection of the Sundance Film Festival\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. 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Local 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. On its 2008 publication in France, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir \"written\" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. 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A short time later, he accompanied her to the Institut Curie, where she was having surgery for breast cancer. A deep bond formed between Annie and Marc precisely during this time of great uncertainty within Ernaux as to whether she would live or die from the cancer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly in their affair, Ernaux found herself entranced each morning by the sight of clothes strewn about, chairs out of place, and the remains of their last meal of the evening before still on the table. The two lovers began to take still life photographs, and to write. 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