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Pura Pasión (Novela) / Simple Passion (a Novel)
By Annie Ernaux
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The passion of love, observed with clarity by one of today's most renowned French authors.
"Since last September, all I've done is wait for a man: I've been waiting for him to call me and come see me," thus begins the story of a cultured, intelligent, financially independent woman, divorced with grown children, who loses her mind over a diplomat from an Eastern country with a weakness for fine clothes and flashy cars. Rarely has anyone spoken so bluntly about how desire can turn our lives upside down.
Annie Ernaux's bare writing introduces readers, with the precision of an entomologist, to the feverish and devastating delirium that anyone may have experienced at some point in their life.