Title: Hello Sadness - Françoise Sagan - book
Summary :
Sagan's first novel (summer 1954). Seventeen-year-old Cécile and her widowed father are having fun. Solitary, they need no one. But the visit of an intelligent and calm woman disrupts their world.
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The villa is magnificent, the summer is scorching hot, the Mediterranean nearby. Cécile is seventeen. She knows nothing of love but kisses, dates, and weariness. Not for long. Her father, a widower, is a joyful devotee of fleeting and unimportant affairs. They have fun, they don't need anyone, they are happy. The visit of a kind-hearted, intelligent, and calm woman disrupts this delicious chaos. How can the threat be averted? In the blazing pine forest, a cruel game is being prepared.
It was the summer of 1954. For the first time, the dry, rapid voice of a "charming little monster" was heard who would cause a scandal. The second half of the 20th century was beginning. She would be like this adolescent torn between remorse and the cult of pleasure.
