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THE EASY LIFE - MARGUERITE DURAS KARTONIERT (TB)

'One of the 20th century's greatest thinkers and prose stylists' New York Times 'A novel of the
disquieting contours of family  and of the mind  and of life unceasing even in the midst of
death by one of the most important  visionary writers of all time' Amina Cain  author of
Indelicacy WITH A FOREWORD BY KATE ZAMBRENO There's nothing to do about boredom  I'm bored  but
one day I won't be bored anymore. Soon I'll know that it's not even worth the trouble. We'll
have the easy life. Twenty-five-year-old Francine Veyrenattes  confined to the family farm 
already feels that life is passing her by. But after Francine lets slip a terrible secret 
culminating in the violent deaths of her brother and uncle  her world is shattered. Fleeing the
farm for the seaside  Francine finds herself disintegrating. Lying in the sun with her toes in
the sand  she restlessly wishes for things to be somehow easier  to have a life worth living.
But then the calm and quiet is broken yet again - by another tragedy and a senseless death  in
which Francine finds herself implicated. Cast out of paradise  and stranded between her home
and the rest of the world  she must confront her rapidly dissolving sense of self if she is to
find a way to survive. 'It's a masterpiece  and a little known  if not unknown  masterpiece .
Any serious reader of this author's work must begin with this novel' YVES BERGER

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