GETTING LOST, by Annie Ernaux (Fitzcarraldo Editions, $32.99)
French writer Annie Ernaux is the latest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. While her works of fiction and autobiography are standard texts in French schools, English-speaking parts of the world often wait decades for translations of her books.
was originally published in 2001 and is intimately linked to her earlier work,, published a decade before. tells the story of a year-long affair with a married Russian attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris. is her diary of that period, her most intimate and uninhibited thoughts and feelings about the affair.