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Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux, Tanya Leslie
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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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, 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.

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A lovely thoughtful experience, well produced audio and enjoyable book. Recommend it with pleasure. Enjoy!

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Annie Ernaux communicates, powerfully and simply, what it is like to be alive. This takes great courage.

Passion - not love, but specially passion - is a kind of addiction. Ernaux paints an unflinching portrait of this feeling, which - for all its pain and humiliation and difficulty - ultimately brings her closer to the world. A wonderful book, read by a skilled narrator. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Unflinching and beautiful

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She reminds me of Elena Ferrante in her writing and characters. Female centred literature. I really enjoyed her obsession over a man that was never hers.

Obsession

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