# Returning to Reims

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- Authors: [Didier Eribon](https://www.bookquiver.com/didier-eribon)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2018-06-07

## Description

" 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, shame in relation to the milieu in which I grew up, why, when once I had arrived in Paris and started meeting people from such different class backgrounds, I would often find myself lying about my class origins... 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 it means 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.

## Editions

### Returning to Reims

- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-799-6
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2019-04-04
- Language: en_GB

### Returning to Reims

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-800-9
- Published: 2018-06-07
- Language: en_GB

### Returning to Reims

- Publisher: semiotext_e
- ISBN: 978-15-8435-123-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2013-09-13
- Language: en_US