Images make up our lives. Real, imagined, fleeting—those that forever get imprinted in memory. And as long as images live, the story lives, people live, and every individual person is alive.
The novel “Years” is like a photo album, a gallery of memories, a heap of images, words, questions, thoughts. Annie Ernaux managed to embody not only the memory of a person, but also the collective memory of an entire era in her unprecedented prose—unlike anything else in form and style. And the pages soaked in tender nostalgia will stir these images in your mind, preserving the memories forever.
The author is a Nobel Prize laureate (2022).