E-raamat: Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories

This is valuable writing. It has immense vitality. You will encounter a female narrator whose direct and bright-eyed stare at the world, and herself, is without shame or faux modesty. At the same time, it is also a deep study of existence, at various ages and stages in life.    * Deborah Levy * The movements of The Paris Trilogy thrum with life, sparkle with insight. It was an exhilarating read. Ive never encountered a more perfect depiction of how the world shrinks when you understand that youre a girl, rather than a person.  * Natasha Brown * Colombe Schneck writes with bracing intelligence and lucidity; she sees the world, and herself, with hard won clarity. A brave, beautiful, uncommonly tender book about love, death, sex and survival. * Katie Kitamura * Seventeen mines a trauma all too common for women and is published at a time when France has just enshrined abortion rights in their constitution. I found it a tale of frank retrospection, a mature woman looking back on her naive self with love and respect. It is immensely readable and still sadly relevant. Give it to every young woman you know.    * Monique Roffey * Whether shes writing about passion or perfecting the front crawl, theres a frankness to Schnecks meditations on womanhood crisply translated here by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer that is electrifying.   * Observer * Schneck, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer, also shares Ernauxs plain style: simultaneously intimate and detached. * New Statesman *