Simple Passion

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.