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Françoise Sagan, Françoise Sagan: Bonjour tristesse. (French language, 1954, Julliard) 4 stars

La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. Cécile a dix-sept ans. Elle …

Review of 'Bonjour tristesse.' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Airy, wispy and light: one could easily skim these pages, but if you look closely into the sentences, you quickly discover a world of its own. I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that Sagan wrote this at the age of 18, but there it is.

Interesting, soft and brilliant, this is a quick, atmospheric and memorable read.