A Man's Place - WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE (Paperback)

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation in A Man's Place reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. 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. Over 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.

General

Imprint:	Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	1983
Authors:	Annie Ernaux
Translators:	Tanya Leslie
Dimensions:	197 x 125 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-1-913097-36-3
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-913097-36-6
Barcode:	9781913097363

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