The problem with first love is that it's almost always followed quickly by first heartbreak. While it's true that some high-school romances endure for decades, for the most part, today's teenager in ...

Lie With Me: By Philippe Besson, translated by Molly Ringwald, Penguin Books, 160 pages, £8.99 (around ₹780). Set in a suburb outside Bordeaux in the 1980s, the story revolves around the narrator, ...

Don’t be fooled by the fact that this book, about a 1980s high-school romance, has been translated from French by Molly Ringwald, star of The Breakfast Club. Dubbed the French Brokeback Mountain, ...

Set in a small French village, it’s a tale of love and loss and how life moves on, told through 17-year-old boys who fall in love, are separated and almost reunited decades later. If you liked Call Me ...

Besson seems to have few qualms about airing intimate details of his life in public, through his books, plays based on them, and on discussion panels. The Tmuna Theater certainly likes to spread ...

Beautiful, tragic, nostalgic; these are the three adjectives I attribute to Arrête avec tes mensonges (Lie With Me), a novel by Philippe Besson. On each page, elaborate, moving descriptions of ...

Besson (In the Absence of Men) rehashes familiar tropes about secret teenage gay romance in this moving but unoriginal novel. Novelist Philippe, who shares many biographical details with the author, ...

Philippe Besson (born 29 January 1967 in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, Charente) is a French writer. In 1999, Besson, a law graduate, was inspired to write his first novel, En l'absence des hommes while ...

Let me tell you: My apartment in Paris is located near the Centre Pompidou. If you’ve ever visited the French capital, you know what I’m talking about — that big contraption that looks like a colorful ...