The Other Girl

Resumen del libro

One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her.

The two women's conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annie's memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria.

Annie will never hear another word from her parents about this unknown sister, nor will she ask them a single question about her: their family unit has formed in the image of its vanished predecessor. In The Other Girl, brilliantly translated for the first time into English by Alison L. Strayer, Annie Ernaux explores the meaning of this family secret, and the insurmountable distance that separates the two sisters.

Biografía del autor

Annie Ernaux (1940) es una de las autoras más reconocidas y laureadas del panorama literario europeo contemporáneo. A lo largo de su dilatada trayectoria ha publicado más de una veintena de libros, entre los que destacan x{0026}lt;i Los armarios vacíosx{0026}lt;/i (1974), x{0026}lt;i Pura pasiónx{0026}lt;/i (1992), x{0026}lt;i El acontecimientox{0026}lt;/i (2000) o x{0026}lt;i Los añosx{0026}lt;/i (2008). En 2022 se le concedió el Premio Nobel de Literatura por el coraje y la agudeza clínica con la que descubre las raíces, los extrañamientos y las trabas colectivas de la memoria personal .