Rokus Hofstede Books

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a haunting record of a woman in the grips of love, desire and despair.

Translated now for the first time into English, War is a powerfully vivid, unflinching, darkly comical exploration of the physical and mental trauma of the Western Front, which provides a fascinating missing link in the writing career of one of the greatest - and most controversial - authors of the twentieth century.

Non pas « Pourquoi on meurt ? », mais « Comment on meurt ? ». Que nous mourrions est une chose, que la grande Faucheuse égalise in fine la condition des hommes, puissants ou misérables, ne fait pas l’ombre d’un doute. Mais le dernier combat, l’agonie, est un acte encore socialisé et toujours tabou dans notre société moderne.