Shame – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

by Ernaux, Annie, Leslie, Tanya

Memoirs

Published 20/09/2023 by Fitzcarraldo Editions in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 88 pages

‘My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.’ Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the analytical eye of a scientist, Annie Ernaux provides a powerful reflection on experience and the power of violent memory to endure through time, to determine the course of a life.