A new month, a new season, a new selection of books. Our editors have plucked a few select publishings we thought you would love.
Here are Pages’ most anticipated book releases in September. Click through to read bookshop.org’s full synopsis.
PUBLISHING THIS MONTH
Selected by the Editor.
The Young Man by Annie Ernaux
Annie Ernaux’s most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.
‘A sublime book.’ — Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle
‘Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.’ — Caroline Montpetit in Le Devoir
The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time - together with a sense that she is living her life backwards.
Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the ‘scandalous girl’ she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first published in France in 2022.
Synopsis by Penguin Random House
