Returning to Reims | Didier Eribon

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?Returning 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.