Returning to Reims
€15.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780141987996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Didier Eribon |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.194 |
| Publishing Date | 04/04/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €14.15 |
| Tax | €0.85 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €15.00 |
| Availability | +20 units in external warehouse |
Product Description
''A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself'' Hilary Mantel
A Guardian reader''s Best Book of 2018
"There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims... Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class ... why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?"
Returning to Reims is a breathtaking account of one man''s return to the town where he grew up after an absence of thirty years. It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of family, memory, identity and time lost. But it is also a sociologist''s view of what itmeans to grow up working class and then leave that class; of inequality and shifting political allegiances in an increasingly divided nation. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times.
''I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life'' Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddy
''A book about self-invention and belonging'' Colm Toibin