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Staff Reviews
Shame is the omnipresent theme across most of Ernaux's works and this book gives the origin of that fixation. Where other authors writing a memoir about the source of shame often slip into melodrama or write about about themselves triumphantly overcoming their victimhood- Ernaux simply dissects the moment as a way to give context to how it has informed her specific way of being.
— Lexi
Description
My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself and the single traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With the emotionally rich voice of great fiction and the diamond-sharp 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.
