In her spare,stark style,Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.
Blurring the line between fact and fiction,she attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-year relationship with a married man where every word,event,and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference.
With courage and exactitude,Ernaux seeks the truth behind an existence lived,for a time,entirely for someone else.
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo EditionsISBN: 9781913097554Dimensions: 197 x 125 mm
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'Annie Ernaux is one of my favourite contemporary writers,original and true. Always after reading one of her books,I walk around in her world for months.'- Sheila Heti,author of Motherhood
'The triumph of Ernaux's approach...is to cherish commonplace emotions while elevating the banal expression of them.... A monument to passions that defy simple explanations.'- The New York Times
Annie Ernaux
The winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2022,Annie Ernaux a critically acclaimed French memoirist and author,best known for her luminous Booker International Prize-shortlisted The Years.
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