{"product_id":"getting-lost-paperback","title":"Getting Lost - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnnie Ernaux\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlison L. Strayer\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e2022 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe diary of one of France's most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGetting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, \u003ci\u003eSimple Passion\u003c\/i\u003e, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these diaries it is 1989 and Annie is divorced with two grown sons, living outside 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, saying \"his desire for me is the only thing I can be sure of.\" She cannot write, she trudges distractedly through her various other commitments in the world, she awaits his next call; she lives only to feel desire and for the next rendezvous. When he is gone and the desire has faded, she feels that she is a step closer to death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. \u003ci\u003eGetting Lost\u003c\/i\u003e is as strong a book as any that she has written, a haunting, desperate view of strong and successful woman who seduces a man only to lose herself in love and desire.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eANNIE ERNAUX\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of some twenty works of fiction and memoir, winner of the Prix Renaudot for \u003ci\u003eA Man's Place\u003c\/i\u003e, and of the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her body of work, and recently the winner of the International Strega Prize and the French-American Translation Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e. She is now considered by many to be France's most important literary voice. \u003cb\u003eALISON L. STRAYER\u003c\/b\u003e is a Canadian writer and translator Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, and the Prix litteraire France-Quebec. She lives in Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 8.3 x 5.55 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42697747398719,"sku":"9781644212196","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/64ae1ba22bc1df9cc4aae1422446f713.webp?v=1765009593","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/getting-lost-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}