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Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend in class rebel Lucas. At home her father puts a brave face on things but cries in secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely speaks and hardly ever leaves the house. To escape this desolate world, Lou goes often to Gare d'Austerlitz to see the big emotions in the smiles and tears of arrival and departure. But there she also sees the homeless, meets a girl called No, only a few years older than herself, and decides to make homelessness the topic of her class presentation. Bit by bit, Lou and No become friends until, the project over, No disappears. Heartbroken, Lou asks her parents the unaskable question and her parents say: Yes, No can come to live with them. So Lou goes down into the underworld of Paris's street people to bring her friend up to the light of a home and family life, she thinks.

Lou is a thirteen year old girl living in Paris. She is an exceptional student with an IQ of 160 who is excelling in school.But Lou lives a lonely life with a mother who is suffering with depression and a father who is caught up taking care of her mother. She is a tiny girl, much shorter than her schoolmates,who is neglected by her parents and forgotten about by her classmates. Her intelligence however affords her a freedom on a higher level and Delphine De Vigan uses this to narrate a story on homelessness set against the backdrop of one of the most grandiose and beautiful cities in the world-Paris. Tenderly written, Delphine De Vigan tackles the issue of homelessness using the voice of Lou. It is a beautiful idea that such a little girl can take on the large problem of homelessness. Lou meets an older homeless girl called No with whom she strikes up a friendship and eventually No comes to live with Lou and her parents. This book gives the reader philosophical insights into how society can continue to let people live on the streets and Lou's innocence generates a powerful narrative. De Vigan tackles the issues head on and her language is simple. These two methods lend the novel a strong emotional foundation. No and Me topped the bestseller charts in France where it was the bookseller choice in 2007. Bloomsbury is publishing two editions for adults and for teenagers. I didn't know beginning the book that it was a crossover novel but it became clear very quickly. It is highly recommendable for young teenagers, a coming of age story and a good introduction to philosophy. An interesting read and a super translation from the original French story.

Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Everyday, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Everyday he drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day and is well acquainted with the symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle and bustle and, of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city. Before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world. "Underground Time" is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting. 'Two solitary existences cross paths in this poignant chronicle, a new testimony to de Vigan's superb eloquence' - "Lire".

Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day and is well acquainted with the symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle and bustle and, of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city. Before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world. Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting. 'Two solitary existences cross paths in this poignant chronicle, a new testimony to de Vigan's superb eloquence' Lire

Mathilde, eine junge Frau mit drei Kindern, lebt in Paris. Ihre Söhne sind ihr ganzes Glück, ihren Beruf betreibt sie mit Leidenschaft, doch seit kurzem wird sie von Tag zu Tag mehr schikaniert. Eines Tages sucht sie eine Wahrsagerin auf. Die alte Frau prophezeit ihr eine Begegnung mit einem Mann und nennt ihr sogar das exakte Datum: der 20. Mai. Mathilde sehnt den Tag herbei. Sie träumt von der großen Veränderung. Von einer Beziehung, die wieder die Liebe in ihr Leben bringt und ihr Kraft gibt. Endlich bricht der 20. Mai an ...

Warum hat Lucile sich fur den Freitod entschieden? Diese Frage treibt Delphine seit dem Tag um, an dem sie ihre Mutter tot aufgefunden hat. Schon als Kind findet sie Lucile schoner, talentierter, unkonventioneller als andere Mutter aber auch immer wieder kuhl und distanziert. Auf ihrer Spurensuche tragt sie die Erinnerungen der gesamten Familie zusammen. Es entsteht das Portrat einer widerspruchlichen und geheimnisvollen Frau, die ihr ganzes Leben auf der Suche war nach Liebe, Gluck und nicht zuletzt nach sich selbst.

Combining the allure of Gone Girl with the sophistication of literary fiction, Based on a True Story is a creepy but unapologetically clever psychological thriller'' IndependentToday I know that L. is the sole reason for my powerlessness. And that the two years that we were friends almost made me stop writing for ever.Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and unable to begin writing her next book, Delphine meets L.L. is the kind of impeccable, sophisticated woman who fascinates Delphine; a woman with smooth hair and perfectly filed nails, and a gift for saying the right thing. Delphine finds herself irresistibly drawn to her, their friendship growing as their meetings, notes and texts increase. But as L. begins to dress like Delphine, and, in the face of Delphine''s crippling inability to write, L. even offers to answer her emails, and their relationship rapidly intensifies. L. becomes more and more involved in Delphine''s life until she patiently takes control and turns it upside down: slowly, surely, insidiously.Based on a True Story is a chilling novel of suspense that will leave you questioning the truth and its significance long after you have turned the final page.

Matthieu Brin ha alcanzado el éxito con su primera novela y las cartas de admiradoras se agolpan en su buzón. Una de ellas le llama particularmente la atención. Es de una joven con la que mantuvo una breve e intensa relacion hace mas de diez años, poco antes de su matrimonio. La carta y su autora empiezan a obsesionarle y a afectar a su hasta entonces apacible vida familiar. La urgencia del deseo despierta su creatividad y resquebraja su estabilidad. Una tarde de diciembre es la historia de una mujer que escribe al hombre a quien una vez amo y al que nunca consiguio olvidar. Un testimonio revelador sobre lo fragil que puede ser la relacion de pareja frente al desgaste del tiempo.

Una madre muere repentinamente y su hija decide investigar. Pero la desaparición ha sido voluntaria. Y el suicidio, por tanto, transforma la investigación en reconstrucción de una vida. Así es como tendremos el privilegio de asistir a la cronica de una familia, el hermoso retrato de los despreocupados Poirier, precursores de la burguesia bohemia. Su vortice es Lucile, surcada de cicatrices y sombras, siempre con la impronta de la enfermedad mental. Una niña hermosa y una bellisima mujer que, tras el telon de un entorno prospero y dichoso, se siente empujada a un cuarto oscuro de miedo, silencio y devastacion. Asi, poco a poco, a ritmo de intriga, la autora, cronista e hija, compone un retrato asombrosamente conmovedor y sincero, formado de personalisimos recuerdos y datos familiares que dibujan finalmente un lazo terrible pero no falto de amor.Estrella GarciaOletvmIlustracion de cubiertaPaula Bonet

La primera novela de Delphine de Vigan, publicada en el año 2001 con el pseudónimo de Lou Delvig por razones familiares, cuenta, en una intensa e inquietante primera persona, la historia de una joven anorexica de diecinueve años.El relato que Laure hace en su diario de un cuerpo al borde de la muerte, un cuerpo vaciado que se hiela de frio durante sus primeros dias en el hospital, con sus treinta y seis kilos de peso y su metro setenta y cinco, es verosimil y perturbador. Desde las primeras lineas de la novela el lector se sumerge en la historia sobrecogedora de una verdadera metamorfosis. Acompaña a la joven a traves de su recuperacion y de su aprendizaje: volver a comer es aprender a ingerir los alimentos pero, ante todo, a sentirse poseedora de un cuerpo susceptible de despertar el deseo del otro. En el hospital, Laure establece una intensa relacion de transferencia con el doctor Brunel que sera determinante para su recuperacion. El inventa historias solo para ella; y la joven va desgranando detalles de su biografia que acercan al personaje a la propia Delphine de Vigan, y a Nada se opone a la noche, su fascinante biografia novelada.Y aun pudiendo ser leida como parte de aquella turbadora, apasionante saga familiar, esta novela de trama minima es tambien una poderosa bildungsroman, un despertar a la vida y al amor, donde el viaje de su protagonista es interior y se desarrolla entre las cuatro paredes de un hospital.

Una tragicomedia descarnada sobre la condición humana y sus miserias, el final del amor, los desengaños vitales y el tiempo que todo lo arrasa. «Durante casi tres años, no escribí una sola línea», di

Después de encontrar a Lucile, su madre, muerta en misteriosas circunstancias, Delphine de Vigan se convierte en una sagaz detective dispuesta a reconstruir la vida de la desaparecida. Los cientos de fotografias tomadas durante años, la cronica de George, abuelo de Delphine, registrada en cintas de casete, las vacaciones de la familia filmadas en super ocho, o las conversaciones mantenidas por la escritora con sus hermanos, son los materiales de los que se nutre la memoria de los Poirier.Nos hallamos ante una esplendida, sobrecogedora cronica familiar en el Paris de los años cincuenta, sesenta y setenta, pero tambien ante una reflexion en el tiempo presente sobre la verdad de la escritura. Y muy pronto descubrimos, detectives-lectores tambien nosotros, que son muchas las versiones de una misma historia, y que narrar implica elegir una de esas versiones y una manera de contarla, y que esta eleccion a veces es dolorosa.En el transcurso del viaje de la cronista al pasado de su familia y a su propia infancia iran aflorando los secretos mas oscuros. Escribo de Lucile con mis ojos de niña que crecio demasiado deprisa, escribo ese misterio que siempre fue ella para mi, a la vez tan presente y tan lejana, ella, que, desde que cumpli diez años, nunca mas me cogio en brazos.Para Delphine de Vigan, escribir sobre su madre es cerrar heridas abiertas muchos años atras, y recuperar la novela familiar es emprender un camino de catarsis y de superacion del duelo, a la manera del que nos descubre Roland Barthes en sus escritos postumos. Pero es tambien un ejercicio de alto riesgo, puesto que en el curso de esta investigacion expone ante los miembros de su familia, como si ellos no fueran mas que lectores anonimos en la multitud, su propio secreto mas terrible.

Matthieu Brin, un homme de 45 ans, marié avec deux enfants, reçoit une lettre écrite par une jeune femme qui l'a aimé par le passé. Cette femme qui recherche simplement le souvenir de l'homme aimé trouble sa vie de couple usée par le temps.

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'A wonderful literary trompe l'oeil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling' Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. L. embodies everything Delphine admires; sophisticated and unusually intuitive, she slowly but deliberately carves herself a niche in the writer's life. However, as she makes herself indispensable to Delphine, the intensity of this unexpected friendship manifests itself in increasingly sinister ways. And as their lives become further entwined, L. begins to threaten Delphine's identity and her safety.