Staring at the Sun | 
pick"Men's courage was different from women's courage. Men's courage lay in going out and nearly getting killed. Women's courage—or so everyone said—lay in endurance."
This book published in 1986 explored in quite a peculiar manner the ordinary life of Jean, from childhood in the interwar period to her adulthood in the 2000s. Jean questions the idea of truth. The last chapter was more philosophical, with a touch of sci-fi, foretelling the use of AI.
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