The Other Girl
3.190 kr.One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two women’s conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annie’s memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria. Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this unknown sister, nor will she ask them a single question about her: their family unit has formed in the image of its vanished predecessor. In The Other Girl, brilliantly translated for the first time into English by Alison L. Strayer, Annie Ernaux explores the meaning of this family secret, and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters.
The Possession
3.190 kr.‘The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city – the whole world – with a person you may never have met.’ These words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman’s need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved’s life. Ernaux’s writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.
Atburðurinn
4.390 kr.„Árum saman hefur þessi atburður fylgt mér eins og skugginn. Þegar ég les um fóstureyðingu í skáldsögu fyllist ég ósjálfrátt geðshræringu, rétt eins og orðin umhverfist á samri stund í ofsafengna tilfinningu. Á sama hátt kemst ég í uppnám þegar ég heyri af tilviljun „La javanaise“, „J’ai la mémoire qui flanche“ eða önnur dægurlög sem voru mér hugstæð á þessum tíma.“ – Annie Ernaux
Nóbelsverðlaunaskáldið Annie Ernaux er ein mikilvægasta rödd samtímabókmennta í Frakklandi.
Atburðurinn er fjórða bókin sem kemur út eftir hana á íslensku en áður hefur Ugla gefið út Staðinn, Unga manninn og Konu.
Þórhildur Ólafsdóttir íslenskaði.
The Years
3.490 kr.Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present, cultural habits, language, photos, books, songs, radio, television, advertising and news headlines. Annie Ernaux invents a form that is subjective and impersonal, private and collective, and a new genre – the collective autobiography – in order to capture the passing of time. At the confluence of autofiction and sociology, The Years is ‘a Remembrance of Things Past for our age of media domination and consumerism’ (New York Times), a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman.