A Very Easy Death: A Memoir

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces.

The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s 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