by Annie Ernaux
There will be very few who deny that the mother has a very special place in the heart of a person and that when she dies, it uses to be a particularly painful loss in most cases even if she has been suffering for a long time. It means the irrevocable end of an era – of “childhood” in a wide sense – ...
Annie Ernaux takes no prisoners. All of her books are connected, and all of them quite good.