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Things Seen
by

Annie Ernaux (Goodreads Author),

Brian Evenson (Foreword),

Jonathan Kaplansky (Translator)

Nate D's review

Mar 11, 2019

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bookshelves: read-in-2019, france, non-fiction

From a journal of observed moments across the 90s Ernaux finds a degraded pulse of the times: supermarkets, politics, racism, poverty, war in the Balkans, general indifference. Begins apparently slight but reveals its heft by accreted instants of insight and appeal.

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