A Very Easy Death: A MemoirA Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoirs masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day by day recounting of her mothers death shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking, this is an end of life account that no reader is likely to forget. Translated by Patrick O'Brian

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