![]() ![]() But the arrival of her late mother's best friend intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. Cécile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father-a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye-for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress. Set against the translucent beauty of France in summer, Bonjour Tristesse is a bittersweet tale narrated by Cecile, a seventeen-year-old girl on the brink of womanhood, whose meddling in her father's love life leads to tragic consequences.Įndearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cécile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. ![]() A sensational 1954 French novel that has become a contemporary classic ![]()
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