The Years

"Memory pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history."
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She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks. . . A child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and men's bodies. Click. An activist fighting for the right to choose. Click. A wife picking out a velvet sofa. Click. A mother taking her eldest to judo. Click. A lover, seducing a younger man. Click. A grandmother presenting her granddaughter to the camera. Click.
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The Years/Les anné es is Annie Ernaux's critically acclaimed "masterpiece" (Guardian), charting a woman's personal and political life against the backdrop of a rapidly changing post-war Europe.