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Only a teenager when Delphine was born, Lucile raised two daughters largely alone. She was a former child model from a Bohemian family, younger and more glamorous than the other mothers: always in lipstick, wayward and wonderful. But as Delphine grew up, Lucile's occasional sadness gave way to overwhelming despair and delusion. She became convinced she was telepathic, in control of the Paris metro system; she gave away all her money; she was hospitalized, medicated, and released in a kind of trance. Young Delphine was left to wonder: What changed her, or what shaped her all along? In this brilliant investigation into her own family history, Delphine de Vigan attempts to "write her mother," seeking out something essential as she interviews aging relatives, listens to recordings, and reads Lucile's own writings. It is a history of luminous beauty and rambunctious joy, of dark secrets and silences. There are untimely deaths and failures of memory. There are revelations and there is the ultimately unknowable. And in the face of the unknowable, personal history becomes fiction: De Vigan must choose from differing accounts and fill in important gaps, using her writer's imagination to reconstruct a life. De Vigan writes her most expansive novel yet with acute self-awareness and marvelous sympathy. Nothing Holds Back the Night is a remarkable work, universally recognizable and singularly heartbreaking.

From the bestselling French novelist. Adults are as lost as the children they should be protecting, in this compelling exploration of the destructive secrets and loyalties that are kept behind closed doorsThirteen-year-old Théo and his friend Mathis secretly drink on an almost daily basis.Their teacher, Hélène, suspects something is not right with Théo and becomes obsessed with rescuing him, casting aside her professionalism to the point of no return. Cécile, mother of Mathis, discovers something horrifying on her husband's computer that makes her question whether she has ever truly known him.Respectable facades are peeled away as the four stories wind tighter and tighter together, pulling into a lean and darkly gripping novel of loneliness, lies and loyalties.

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.

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 ...

Un matí d'hivern, Delphine de Vigan va entrar a l'apartament de la seva mare, Lucile, i se la va trobar morta estirada al llit. Arran d'aquesta mort sobtada en circumstàncies poc clares, l'escriptora

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 relación hace más 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 amó y al que nunca consiguió olvidar. Un testimonio revelador sobre lo frágil que puede ser la relación de pareja frente al desgaste del tiempo.

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".

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.

Delphine de Vigan busca con inteligencia en los miedos y angustias de Mathilde y Thibault, que viven en París.Podría ser la vida de cualquiera en cualquier ciudad.Sabemos de qué nos hablan porque tocan los problemas que nos preocupan, que nos atormentan y, al fin, que nos constituyen.PREMIO DE LOS LIBREROS 2008 Y FINALISTA DEL PREMIO GONCOURT 2009.Ya ha llegado al limite, al limite de lo soportable, al final de lo humanamente soportable. [...] Ha llegado exactamente alli, al punto de no retorno, alli donde ya nada normal puede [...]pasar que amenace el conjunto, que lo cuestione todo.Mathildeocupa un puesto directivo en un departamento de marketing. Atraviesa un mal momento en el trabajo y su vida pierde sentido: ha entrado en crisis.Thibault es medico y atiende pacientes desplazandose de un lado a otro de la ciudad. Atraviesa un mal momento en su vida sentimental, se siente atrapado en su trabajo, no encuentra sentido a nada: ha entrado en crisis.Susvidas se alejan, se acercan, se cruzan en los caminos subterraneos de la gran ciudad, de sus trabajos, de sus pensamientos.¿Es posible que en algun momento se encuentren? ¿Es posible el amor o simplemente la vida en una ciudad competitiva y cruel pero que tambien sabe ser generosa y humana?Es hoy. Hoy, algo podria pasar. Algo importante. Un acontecimiento que cambiaria el curso de su vida, un punto de inflexion, una cesura.

« J'ai pensé que le gamin était maltraité, j'y ai pensé très vite, peut-être pas les premiers jours mais pas longtemps après la rentrée, c'était quelque chose dans sa façon se tenir, de se soustraire au regard, je connais ça, je connais ça par cœur, une manière de se fondre dans le décor, de se laisser traverser par la lumière. Sauf qu'avec moi, ça ne marche pas.»Théo, enfant du divorce, entraîne son ami Mathis sur des terrains dangereux. Hélène, professeur de collège a l'enfance violentée, s'inquiète pour Théo : serait-il en danger dans sa famille ?Quant a Cécile, la mère de Mathis, elle voit son équilibre familial vaciller, au moment où elle aurait besoin de soutien pour protéger son fils.Les loyautés sont autant de liens invisibles qui relient et enchaînent ces quatre personnages.

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

Lou Bertignac té tretze anys: la seva família viu tancada en un silenci opriment, i a l'escola la seva intel·ligència precoç l'ha portat fins a una classe avançada. Incapaç d'establir cap relació, Lou passa la major part del temps col·leccionant paraules, somiant en un petó i observant les emocions dels altres en les estacions de tren.á I és aquí, a la parisenca estació d'Austerlitz, on Lou troba Nolwenn, una jove sense sostre solitària i rebel, amb els vestits bruts i l'expressió cansada de tant qüestionar-se el món. Enmig de la follia de la gran ciutat, No i Lou construiran una amistat que potser aconseguirà canviar les seves vides i reduir la injustícia i la misèria del món. Novel·la d'aprenentatge, No i jo relata amb el to just i els sentiments sincers un somni d'adolescència sotmès a prova per la realitat. "No i jo és un animal híbrid: agrada a adults i a adolescents; és elogiada pels llibreters, saludada per la premsa i reconeguda pels jurats literaris". Astrid Eliard, Le Figaro

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

Premio de los Libreros 2008. Finalista del premio Goncourt 2008.Lou está en plena pubertad, se mueve en un mundo de adultos con pasos de niña. Lou es extremadamente tímida, y el hecho de ser una superdotada y de estar en una clase donde todos los alumnos tienen varios años más que ella, no se lo pone más fácil. Y por si esto fuera poco, al llegar a casa, Lou debe enfrentarse a una madre hundida por la depresión y a un padre empeñado en ver la vida de color de rosa. Pero eso a su estricto profesor de economía no le importa. Lou tiene que preparar un trabajo que deberá exponer ante el resto de la clase. Y subirse a la tarima, enfrentarse a sus compañeros... y hablar es la peor pesadilla de Lou.Entonces Lou conoce a No, adolescente que sobrevive en la calle, bebe vodka, come en comedores sociales y duerme en albergues, cuando tiene suerte. No está al borde del desastre, y Lou decide salvarla. Y entre ellas surge una amistad sin fisuras, que llevarán hasta sus últimos límites.No y yo descubre a los lectores españoles la realidad de la miseria que cubre un París muy distinto al que ven los turistas. No y yo es una novela que mezcla la dureza de la vida en la calle con la ternura y los sueños de pubertad. No y yo es una novela que conjuga ternura y suspense, que conduce al lector por el filo de la navaja, entre los sueños de la juventud y la pesadilla de la marginación.