Bonjour Tristesse, Paperback Book, By: Francoise Sagan

The villa is magnificent, the summer scorching, the Mediterranean very close. Cecile is seventeen. She knows of love only kisses, dates, weariness. Not for a long time. Her widowed father is a happy follower of fleeting and unimportant relationships. They have fun, they don't need anyone, they are happy. The visit of a woman of heart, intelligent and calm, comes to disturb this delicious disorder. How to avert the threat? In the blazing pine forest, a cruel game is brewing. It was the summer of 1954. We heard for the first time the dry and rapid voice of a "charming little monster" which was going to cause scandal. The second half of the 20th century was beginning. She would be like this teenager torn between remorse and the cult of pleasure.