'An astonishing love story, beautifully told' Time Out'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century'It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. ...
Lucas’s brother Thomas is dying. At their childhood holiday home, the two brothers wait for Lucas to die. Besson’s dispassionate observation of disease and death is haunting, as he portrays the inability of others to cope with Thomas’ illness a...
The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson -- “the French Brokeback Mountain” (Elle) -- about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internation...