Ernaux, Annie The 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.Getting Lost 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, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered. In 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. Lauded for her spare prose, Ernaux here removes all artifice, her writing pared down to its most naked and vulnerable. Getting Lost 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. AUDIENCE: Annie Ernaux fans; Readers of literary fiction, feminist fiction, memoir, autofiction; Readers of literature and women in translation; Nobel prize watchers and anyone interested in why she is a perennial favorite to win. ANNIE ERNAUX IS NOW RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF FRANCE’S MOST IMPORTANT LITERARY VOICES AND IS GETTING SIGNIFICANT MEDIA ATTENTION: Author getting considerable international acclaim, most recently with profiles in London Review of Books and The Guardian. After thirty years and several international bestsellers, now is Annie Ernaux's moment, when readers everywhere are discovering her uncompromising, emotionally charged, no-holds-barred literature. AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR: Her recent book, The Years, won numerous French literary awards including the French Language Prize 2008; Winner of the Françoise-Mauriac Prize of the French Academy 2008; Winner of the Marguerite Duras Prize 2008; Winner of the Télégramme Readers Prize 2009. FILM RELEASE OF PREVIOUS BOOK “HAPPENING”: In Fall 2022, the Golden Lion winning film at the Venice Film Festival, based on the Ernaux novel of the same name and directed by Audrey Diwan, will premier in North American. Publicity: • Major features in New York Review of Books, Bookforum, and Vogue• Excerpt in The Paris Review• Major review attention in mainstream, literary and feminist publications• Promote with the French cultural consulate• ARCs and egalleys on Edelweiss and by request• Feature in Women in Translation Month promotions• Featured title at ABA Winter Institute• Academic marketing to French literature courses, memoir writing.• GoodReads giveaway• Advertising online• Social Media campaign• Coop available Author Website: https://www.annie-ernaux.org/
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