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A Woman's Story (French: Une femme) is French author Annie Ernaux's fifth novel. It was originally published in French in 1988 with Éditions Gallimard and and was translated into english by Tanya Leslie in 2003.

Synopsis
Following Ernaux's La Place, the 1984 Prix Renaudot winning novel about the life of her father, this book is instead centered around the life and death of the author's mother. She recounts her mother's past, from the factory where she works in her adolescence, to her retirement home and eventual hospitalization. She also mentions the plastic bag she finds in her mother's hospital room, in which the staff left various objects and articles of clothing belonging to her just-passed mother.

Translation

 * Tanya Leslie, A Woman's Story, Seven Stories Press, 2003
 * (it) Lorenzo Flabbi, Una Donna, L'orma editore, 2018
 * (de), Eine Frau, Berlin, Suhrkamp, 2019

Reception
Although very similar in theme to her previous novel, La Place, the book was praised by Josyane Savigneau who, in the same year of its original publication, said that "Annie Ernaux a encore gagné en sobriété et en maîtrise" (trad. "Annie Ernaux has once again gained in sobriety and mastery of work").

For Philippe Vilain, writing ten years after the book's publication, thees.