{"product_id":"1644213206-the_young_man","title":"The Young Man","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003cbr\u003e Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.\u003cbr\u003e \"A sublime book.\" -Olivia de Lamberterie, \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here, in a breathtakingly short book, Ernaux recounts a relationship that made her become again-for several months-the \"scandalous girl\" of her younger years.\u003cbr\u003e The book takes place in Rouen, where Ernaux studied in the early 1960s, and begins in a student apartment, where A. lives-we only know her lover's initial. The windows of his apartment look out at the hospital where Ernaux experienced her secret abortion thirty years prior. A. takes the narrator back to memories of her own youth and makes her feel ageless, outside of time-she has the sense that she is living her life backwards.\u003cbr\u003e Here Ernaux again explores shame-she considers how A.'s friends ask him how he can be with a woman in menopause-and anticipation for their next encounter, quintessential and masterfully excavating themes from her previous books like \u003ci\u003eSimple Passion\u003c\/i\u003e and her \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eGetting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \"The whole book is fascinating, because it avoids the simplifications of unanimous hagiography. Of course, this volume is also a tribute, and on almost every page we read the signs of a fervent admiration.\" \u003cb\u003e-\u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Social Sciences\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSociology\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eReference\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - Acceptable","offer_id":47679719735486,"sku":"1644213206-5","price":13.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/71pvaTOBrbL.jpg?v=1781803276","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/1644213206-the_young_man","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}