“Beautifully translated by Ringwald” (NPR), this is “Philippe Besson’s book of a lifetime.an elegiac tale of first, hidden love” ( The New Yorker).

Philippe becomes a writer and travels the world, though as this “tender, sensuous novel” ( The New York Times Book Review) shows, he never lets go of the relationship that shaped him, and every story he’s ever told. But they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.ĭespite the intensity of their attraction, from the beginning Thomas knows how it will end: “Because you will leave and we will stay,” he says. At school, they don’t acknowledge each other. Thomas is the son of a farmer Philippe the son of a school principal. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author.

What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. 34,207 ratings 5,821 reviews shelved 114,524 times Showing 30 distinct works. Philippe Besson(novel) Arthur Cahn(collaboration) Olivier Peyon(screenplay). L'Arrire-saison, published in 2002, won the Grand Prix RTL-Lire 2003. In this “sexy, pure, and radiant story” ( Out), Philippe chances upon a young man outside a hotel in Bordeaux who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER Stunning and heart-gripping Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name A beautiful, shattering novel about desire and shame. In 1999, Besson, who was a jurist at that time, was inspired to write his first novel, In the Absence of Men, while reading some accounts of ex-servicemen of the First World War. The critically acclaimed, internationally beloved novel by Philippe Besson-“this year’s Call Me By Your Name” ( Vulture) with raves in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vanity Fair, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Out-about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress and writer Molly Ringwald. THE NO.1 FRENCH BESTSELLER Stunning and heart-gripping Andre Aciman author of Call Me by Your Name A beautiful shattering novel about desire and shame.

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