{"product_id":"9780141987996-returning-to-reims","title":"Returning to Reims","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Guardian reader's Best Book of 2018 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"There was a question that had come to trouble me a bit earlier, once I had taken the first steps on this return journey to Reims. Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class . why had it never occurred to me to take up this problem in a book?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReturning to Reims is a breathtaking account of one man's return to the town where he grew up after an absence of thirty years. It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of family, memory, identity and time lost. But it is also a sociologist's view of what itmeans to grow up working class and then leave that class; of inequality and shifting political allegiances in an increasingly divided nation. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life' Edouard Louis, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Eddy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A book about self-invention and belonging' Colm Toibin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943152136289,"sku":"9780141987996","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_32367560.jpg?v=1741181095","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141987996-returning-to-reims","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}