"Memories of a Girl" Author: [France] Anne Erno Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House Original title: Mémoire de fille

Contents:

In her new book, A Girl's Memories, Anne Ernaux revisits her time as a camp counsellor in Normandy in the summer of 1958 and tells of her first night with a man. When he fell in love with someone else, she realized she had given her will to him, like a conquered person without a master. Now, sixty years later, the author finds herself able to erase the intervening years and revisit the young girl she had wanted to forget completely. Bringing the indelible memory of that summer into the present, Ernaux discovers that the important and painful origins of her writing career were built on shame, violence, and betrayal.

About the Author:

Annie Ernaux

A famous contemporary French female writer. Born in 1940 in a coastal town in Normandy, France. She was born into the poor class of France, and her parents ran a small grocery store there. In order to help her escape from the humble social class and the poor living environment, her parents did their best, working day and night, to send her to university to listen to "Plato". However, when she really realized her "dream" and rose to the so-called upper class, she had an irreconcilable gap with her parents and was forever separated from the world she came from. Anne Erno fearlessly recorded her own experiences and her clear views on society and collective memory. Her works are written in a neutral style of plain description, which is very easy to resonate with readers.

Her work "A Man's Place" won the 1984 French Renaudot Literature Prize, and "The Long Days" won the 2008 French Duras Literature Prize. So far, she has published more than 20 works, which have been translated into more than a dozen languages. All her works have been awarded the "Marguerite Yourcenar Award" (2017), the Spanish "Formentor Literature Award" (2019), and the "Woerth European Literature Award" (2021).

Translator: Chen Shuting