Cover art for The Possession
Published
Fitzcarraldo, August 2025
ISBN
9781804271490
Format
Softcover, 48 pages
Dimensions
19.7cm × 12.5cm

The Possession

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'The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city - the whole world - with a person you may never have met.' These words set the framework for The Possession, a striking portrait of a woman after a love affair has ended. Annie Ernaux pulls the reader through every step of jealousy, of a woman's need to know who has replaced her in a lost beloved's life.

Ernaux's writing, characteristically gorgeous in its precision, depicts the all too familiar human tendency to seek control and certainty after rejection.

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