Years, Paperback by Ernaux, Annie; Bain, Stephanie (TRN); Arbo, Eline (ADP), ...
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Years, Paperback by Ernaux, Annie; Bain, Stephanie (TRN); Arbo, Eline (ADP), .... Years, Paperback by Ernaux, Annie; Bain, Stephanie (TRN); Arbo, Eline (ADP), ISBN 1839044497, ISBN-13 9781839044496, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 'Memory pairs the dead with the living, real with imaginary beings, dreams with history.' She strikes a pose and the camera shutter clicks... A child playing in the debris of the Second World War. Click. A student discovering parties and men's bodies. Click. An activist fighting for the right to choose. Click. A wife picking out a velvet sofa. Click. A mother taking her eldest to judo. Click. A lover, seducing a younger man. Click. A grandmother presenting her granddaughter to the camera. Click. The Years/Les années is Annie Ernaux's critically acclaimed 'masterpiece' (Guardian ), charting a woman's personal and political life against the backdrop of a rapidly changing post-war Arbo's inventive stage adaptation was premiered as De jaren by Het Nationale Theater in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2022. It was first performed, in an English-language version by Stephanie Bain – after the translations by Alison L. Strayer and Tanya Leslie – at the Almeida Theatre, London, in 2024, with a cast of five women collectively bringing to life the story of one woman, and a whole new edition of the play is published alongside the West End transfer in 2025.
