{"product_id":"getting-lost","title":"Getting Lost","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\r","brand":"Annie Ernaux, Alison L. Strayer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44440979996908,"sku":"9781644212196","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781644212196.jpg?v=1708833533","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/getting-lost","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}