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Lie With Me
Philippe Besson
其他書名
A Novel
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2020-04-07
主題
Fiction / LGBTQ+ / Gay
Fiction / Coming of Age
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1501197886
9781501197888
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tdDVDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. Two young men find each other, always fearing that life itself might be the villain standing in their way. A stunning and heart-gripping tale.”
—André Aciman, author of
Call Me by Your Name
A
New York Times Book Review
Editor’s Choice
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.
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. 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. Thomas is the son of a farmer; Philippe the son of a school principal. At school, they don’t acknowledge each other. But they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.
Despite the intensity of their attraction, from the beginning Thomas knows how it will end: “Because you will leave and we will stay,” he says. 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.
“Beautifully translated by Ringwald” (NPR), this is “Philippe Besson’s book of a lifetime...an elegiac tale of first, hidden love” (
The New Yorker
).
