{"product_id":"9781913097004","title":"Annie Ernaux - Getting Lost","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Annie Ernaux. Themes include Biography \u0026amp; Autobiography, Cultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional, Literary Figures, Women, Personal Memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGetting Lostis the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate and unfiltered. In these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living in the suburbs of Paris and nearing fifty. Her lover escapes the city to see her there and Ernaux seems to survive only in expectation of these encounters. She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives merely to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the moment of desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Translated brilliantly for the first time by Alison L. Strayer, Getting Lostis a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58579976880502,"sku":null,"price":8.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9781913097004.jpg?v=1788192768","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/9781913097004","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}