# Returning to Reims

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- Book: [Returning to Reims](https://www.bookquiver.com/didier-eribon/returning-to-reims) ([Returning to Reims.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/didier-eribon/returning-to-reims.md))
- Authors: [Didier Eribon](https://www.bookquiver.com/didier-eribon)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4198-800-9
- Published: 2018-06-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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 breath-taking memoir of return, a family story of class, sexuality, gender and of the shifting political allegiances of the French working classes. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times.