Returning to Reims

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 Mantelbr>br>A Guardian reader''s Best Book of 2018 br>br>"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?"br>br>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.br>br>''I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life'' Edouard Louis, author of The End of Eddybr>br>''A book about self-invention and belonging'' Colm Toibin>

Product details

• Authors: Didier Eribon, Eribon Didier
• Assisted by: Michael Lucey (Translation), Lucey Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780141987996
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198799-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 195 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, France, Autobiography: literary, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Autobiography: writers