Cleaned Out Annie Ernaux Carol Sanders Translation by Annie Ernaux, Carol Sanders (translation) 9780916583651, 0916583651, B008YT06RQ instant download after payment.

"Written with raw & powerful images, Annie Ernaux says the 'unsayable' as she confronts the experience of having an abortion & of growing up in the post-World War II generation, all in a fresh, original voice." — San Francisco Chronicle 

Ernaux, one of France's most important contemporary writers, daringly breaks with formal French literary tradition in this moving novel about abortion, growing up, & coming to terms with one's childhood.

"Cleaned Out is more than a powerful evocation of the class system in France in the 1950s & of one woman's struggle to move up in the class hierarchy & forget her past. It is also a novel that serves as a haunting contribution, both in subject matter & literary form, to the project of the culturally disenfranchised speaking in their own voice." — Bloomsbury ReviewB

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Annie Ernaux is a French writer. She won the Prix Renaudot in 1984 for her book La Place, an autobiographical narrative focusing on her relationship with her father & her experiences growing up in a small town in France, & her subsequent process of moving into adulthood & away from her parents' place of origin. 

Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, & later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. In 2017, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her life’s work. In 2022, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.