Name: Simple Passion
Price: 12.51 EUR
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Author: Ernaux, Annie ; Leslie, Tanya
ISBN: 9781583225745

Type

Physical Book

Author

Annie Ernaux

Translated by

Tanya Leslie

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Year

2003

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9 x 14.0 x 0.6 cm

Weight

0.12 kg.

ISBN

1583225749

ISBN13

9781583225745

Synopsis "Simple Passion "

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book 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, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

Annie Ernaux

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Annie Ernaux was born in 1940 in the French region of Normandy. She grew up in the small town of Yvetot and studied literature at the University of Rouen. A teacher of that subject in high schools in Annecy and the Parisian suburbs, she currently lives near the French capital and works at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. At Tusquets Editores we have published Pure Passion, Shame, The Event, and The Place (Renaudot Prize, 1984). In 2019, she received the Formentor Prize for her body of work.

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