中文简介：

这部作品以随机日记的形式写成，时间跨度长达7年，专注于在一个人生活环境周边发生的短暂相遇。Annie Ernaux捕捉到了当代生活在巴黎郊区的感觉：凄美的抒情感、混乱、奇妙的生命力。这是一部令人惊喜的作品，Ernaux第一次完全摆脱了她在其他作品中对个人关系的关注，将过去抛到脑后。

英文简介：

In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. She captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of a great city: tortured, chaotic, lyrical, and powerfully alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books—the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.