{"product_id":"i-remain-in-darkness-isbn-9781583220528","title":"\"I Remain in Darkness\"","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter’s attachment to her mother, and of both women’s strength and resiliency. \u003ci\u003eI Remain in Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e recounts Annie’s attempts first to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease, and then, when that proves futile, to bear witness to the older woman’s gradual decline and her own experience as a daughter losing a beloved parent. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Remain in Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is a new high water mark for Ernaux, surging with raw emotional power and her sublime ability to use language to apprehend her own life’s particular music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Washington Post \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop Memoir of 1999\u003c\/b\u003e“A testament to the persistent, haunting, and melancholy quality of memory.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As always, Ernaux's marriage of opposites—disgust and adoration, revulsion and emulation, dirt-physical and heady-theoretical—takes place on the whitest of pages. Ernaux's opposites rip her in two in spite of her spare language. ... [Her] art is in her fight with words.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ernaux courageously bears witness both to complex multiple truths of family relationships and to the fierce persistence of family love.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Again blurring the line between memoir and fiction, Ernaux continues the story of her family in journal form … Several recurring themes are woven throughout, notably those of time, art and the relationship between mother and daughter. Like Ernaux's other work (\u003ci\u003eShame\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSimple Passion\u003c\/i\u003e), this is 'not literature' exactly, but 'an attempt to salvage part of our lives, to understand, but first to salvage,' poignant though limited in its reach.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBorn in 1940, ANNIE ERNAUX grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and began teaching high school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular \u003ci\u003eA Man’s Place\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman’s Story\u003c\/i\u003e, have become contemporary classics in France. She won the prestigious Prix Renaudot for \u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003e when it was first published in French in 1984. The English edition was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. The English edition of \u003ci\u003eA Woman’s Story \u003c\/i\u003ewas a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301319823589,"sku":"NP9781583220528","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781583220528.jpg?v=1767729699","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/i-remain-in-darkness-isbn-9781583220528","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}