{"title":"Philippe Besson","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"deja-de-decir-mentiras","title":"Deja de decir mentiras","description":"\u003cp\u003e“An impressive and overwhelming story.” ANDRÉ ACIMAN, author of Call Me by Your Name\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith over 120,000 copies sold, translated into more than 20 languages, and adapted into a major film, comes the most acclaimed story by one of the most important French authors of recent times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work that highlights, starting with the title, just how much choosing the truth can be an act of heroism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile walking through his native region, the narrator, none other than Philippe Besson, sees in the hotel lobby a young man whose resemblance to his first love hits him like a punch. From there, he goes back twenty-five years in time to the first meeting between two completely opposite teenagers: one, rather shy, is the son of a teacher, a diligent student, and an avid reader; the other, Thomas, is the son of farmers, rebellious, charismatic, mysterious, and the idol of the high school girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the very first moment, the attraction between them is immediate and unmistakable. The secret meetings that follow are bathed in a fascination tinged with guilt and denial. The secret that surrounds them makes them much more intense. However, Thomas is unable to express his feelings or accept who he is. He disappears from the narrator’s life as suddenly as he had entered it, leaving young Philippe with the wound of an unfinished first love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen I was little, my mother kept telling me, “Stop telling lies.” Apparently, I invented stories so well that in the end she couldn’t tell what was true from what was false. I ended up making it my profession: I became a novelist. Today I finally obey my mother: I tell the truth. For the first time. In this book. Just in case, I warn you: there is no settling of scores, no violence, no family neurosis. But there is love. An immense and secret love that eventually came back to find me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With delicate and restrained prose, Besson captures the exact moment when desire becomes memory. Brief, intense, and honest. A novel that portrays, without shame or showiness, the courage of someone who loves for the first time.” DAVID MORAGAS, author of Fervor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A truly moving depiction of first love. 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An electrifying encounter with Marcel Proust, a great middle-aged novelist, brings his desires to light. Under Marcel’s guidance, Vincent begins a relationship as secret as it is dangerous with Arthur, a young soldier on leave. Together they share a secret that everyone seems to know but about which no one says anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the afternoons, Vincent frequents the city’s opulent cafés with Marcel, attracting the critical gaze of society. At night, he hides Arthur in his room, risking everything to be together. Their relationship leads them into a world of pleasure and protects them from the relentlessness of war. During that magical week away from the trenches, Vincent wraps Arthur in fragile and absolute happiness and promises him: “Nothing will happen to you.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the Absence of Men is a brief, bold, and original novel that captures with great accuracy the romanticism and amorality of the golden age of youth. It stands out especially for its absolutely convincing portrait of Proust.” -THE INDEPENDENT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Besson shows courage by including Proust, and his boldness pays off: a beautiful novel, dreamlike and experimental in tone, unafraid to describe both joy and pain.” -METRO\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plata","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57001640198488,"sku":"LIB-EN-PL-594","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8464\/0856\/files\/9788410439207.jpg?v=1774877002"},{"product_id":"un-tal-paul-darrigrand-philippe-besson","title":"Un tal Paul Darrigrand","description":"\u003cp\u003eThat year, I was twenty-two and, at the same time, about to meet the elusive Paul Darrigrand and dangerously flirt with death, without these two events being related. On one hand, pleasure and carefreeness; on the other, suffering and anguish. The exultant body and the bruised body. 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