Simple Passion

<b>WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE<br><br>A <i>New York Times </i>Notable Book</b><br><br>In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.