*I Remain in Darkness* by Annie Ernaux Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House

About the Book
★ First Chinese publication of a work by Nobel Prize laureate Annie Ernaux

★ A true account of the frustration, fear, and reconciliation experienced while caring for a mother with dementia

★ Emotionally restrained, deeply moving, a work even more "raw" than "A Woman's Story"

★ This is the story of the author and her mother, also the story of a daughter and a mother, and the story of those facing aging and death

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"I Remain in Darkness" is a bedside journal and a meditation on aging, death, and the mother-daughter relationship. It chronicles Annie Ernaux's ultimately futile attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and the guilt, fear, frustration, and reconciliation she felt during the caregiving process.

"I remain in darkness" were the last words written by the author's mother. In moments where there was only "darkness," Ernaux never abandoned her mother with dementia, persistently writing through the pain. This book is the story of the author and her mother, the story of all daughters and mothers, and the story of those facing aging and death.

About the Author and Translator
Author

Annie Ernaux, a contemporary French writer. Born in Lillebonne, France, she spent her youth in Yvetot, Normandy. She holds a national teaching qualification in modern literature and has taught in Annecy, Pontoise, and the National Centre for Distance Education. She lives in Cergy, Val-d'Oise. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2022.

Translator

Huang Hong, PhD in Literature from Nanjing University, PhD in Literature from Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor in the French Department at Nanjing University, Adjunct Researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanjing University, and Yunshan Visiting Scholar at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. Her main research areas include contemporary French literature and Sino-French comparative literature. Her major translated works include: "The World Outside," "Flower Affairs," "Sex: Essays on Feminism," "The Great Capercaillie," etc.