Lie With Me -

Philippe Besson

Penguin Books

2019

160 páginas

5h 20m

ISBN-13: 9780241987094

Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe, a famous writer, chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back to Philippe's teenage years, to a winter morning in 1984, a small French high school, and a carefully timed encounter between two seventeen-year-olds. It's the start of a secret, intensely passionate, world-altering love affair between Philippe and his classmate, Thomas.

Dazzlingly rendered by Molly Ringwald, the acclaimed actor and writer, in her first-ever translation, Besson's exquisitely moving coming-of-age story captures the tenderness of first love - and the heart-breaking passage of time.

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5 (Perfeito)

Because you will leave and we will stay

Esse livro segue a história de Philippe, um rapaz de 17 anos cursando o último ano do ensino médio na França de 1984, e como ele se apaixona por Thomas, um jovem taciturno e anti-social.

A história é muito linda, a escrita evoca um sentimento de nostalgia, de tristeza, de esperança.
Conhecemos os personagens pela mente do protagonista, que talvez não seja um narrador confiável.
Durante o livro inteiro eu não gostei de Thomas, mas o final me fez questionar tudo.
Esse livro é sensacional, tem muitas frases maravilhosas que te fazem refletir sobre amor e perda.

"Later I will write about this longing, the intolerable deprivation of the other. I will write about the sadness that eats away at you, making you crazy. It will become the template for my books, in spite of myself. I wonder sometimes if I have ever written of anything else. It's as if I never recovered from it: the inaccessible other, occupying all my thoughts.”

"He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it. He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay."