The celebrated novelist on his friendship with France’s first couple and his latest book, a French Brokeback Mountain. Plus, a Q&A with translator Molly Ringwald When French writer Philippe Besson was ...

Viking will publish French author Philippe Besson's award-winning novel Lie With Me, translated by actress and author Molly Ringwald. Isabel Wall, assistant editor at Viking, acquired UK and ...

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 ...

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, ...

Full of Proustian echoes, this story of gay adolescence deals with complex issues of class, shame and secrecy In France Philippe Besson is well known; he’s written almost 20 novels in 18 years, and ...

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's dreamy wartime love story was first published in 2002, and the reissued version is just as perfect for summer reading Lizz Schumer is the Senior Editor, Books, at PEOPLE. She has ...

Besson (Lie with Me) offers a haunting and wistful work of autofiction about a fateful summer. “I have never managed to rid myself of that story. It has never left me,” Philippe narrates on the first ...