Shame by Annie Ernaux by Annie Ernaux

Shame by Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux

86 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." You'd expect a book that begins with these words to be a raw, anguished account of childhood trauma, but prize-winning French author Ernaux disdains such American-styl...

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