num_pages: 80
description: In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the lines between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her two-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.
language: English
title: Simple Passion
titlecomplete: Simple Passion
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Nobel Prize, France, French Literature, Fiction, Novella, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 22975
publisher: Seven Stories Press