{"product_id":"2026200010094-secondhand-childhood","title":"Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn\/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMemory is never simple — and Nathalie Sarraute's Childhood proves this with extraordinary literary force. This autobiographical work chronicles the early years of one of the twentieth century's most innovative writers, reconstructing her fragmented childhood across Russia and France through the lens of her signature New Novel technique. Rather than presenting a linear memoir, Sarraute conducts an internal dialogue between two voices — one remembering, one questioning — creating a self-interrogating narrative that challenges the very act of recollection itself.\n\nTranslated into English by Barbara Wright in close consultation with the author, Childhood stands as a landmark of French modernist prose, demonstrating Sarraute's lifelong preoccupation with the sub-conversational currents that flow beneath human consciousness. Her style — precise, unsettling, stripped of sentimentality — illuminates the textures of feeling that conventional autobiography cannot reach. For readers who believe they know what a memoir can be, Sarraute's masterwork will quietly, insistently, prove them wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130624680155,"sku":"2026200010094-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/781b5a18-1bca-4f5d-9d17-36d0655bbbff.png?v=1786587789","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200010094-secondhand-childhood","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}