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The Young Man


A work of Non-fiction


Subgenres:

  • Memoir,
  • Love and Relationships,
  • Later in Life
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  • Memoirs exploring age gap relationships from the older woman's perspective
  • Reflections on desire, memory, and the passage of time
  • Narratives where personal history collides with present passion
Publisher Description

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE.

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.

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties.

The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time— together with a sense that she is living her life backwards.

Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching.

The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl” she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing.

It was first published in France in 2022.

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