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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 girls at school.\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 and 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 truth from falsehood. 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 first love.” 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 a word.\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 inexorability of war. 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