"A book that is at once simple and touching"
DELPHINE BARRAIS Ouest France
" There is a drop of Kundera in there, and a whiff of Houllebecq. But what strikes you is a breathless, edgy, almost stifled sincerity"
" There is a drop of Kundera in there, and a whiff of Houllebecq. But what strikes you is a breathless, edgy, almost stifled sincerity"
PATRICK BESSON Le Figaro Litteraire
"Florian Zeller has a talent that can be frightening. This knowledge of life, these descriptions of feelings, this disturbing perception of love, this apprehension of death ... each page of the novel contains something astonishing ... Zeller is disarming. More than promising he is bursting with talent"
"Florian Zeller has a talent that can be frightening. This knowledge of life, these descriptions of feelings, this disturbing perception of love, this apprehension of death ... each page of the novel contains something astonishing ... Zeller is disarming. More than promising he is bursting with talent"
AURELIE SAROT Metro
ABOUT THE BOOK
LOVERS OR SOMETHING LIKE IT is a true novel for our time, a story of the futility of love for the lost souls of Generation X. When disaffected young Parisian Tristan meets pretty, fragile Amelie he is thrown off guard by his feelings for her. He had sworn to stay single forever, loving and leaving a trail of heartbroken women in his wake. He hasn't done anything to deserve falling in love: why him and why Amelie? Is she really so special? Tristan is torn between tenderness and desire, and as their relationship grows ever more complex, he finds it impossible to avoid betrayal.
Lovers or something like it is an intelligent and sensitive portrayal of the doubts and desires of a new generation, suffering from the agony of indecision and too many choices to feel true contentment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FLORIAN ZELLER is twenty-six and a lecturer at the University of Political Science in Paris. Lovers or something like it is his second novel, and was published in France to enormous critical acclaim. He received the Prix Interallie for his third novel, The Fascination of Evil, published by Pushkin Press in 2006, and received the Hachette Foundation Literary Prize for his first novel, Artificial Snow. He is also the winner of a New Writer Award from the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation.
TRANSLATED BY Sue Dyson
Cover illustration by Susan Derges
ISBN 1 901285 52 9 - 168pp
ABOUT THE BOOK
LOVERS OR SOMETHING LIKE IT is a true novel for our time, a story of the futility of love for the lost souls of Generation X. When disaffected young Parisian Tristan meets pretty, fragile Amelie he is thrown off guard by his feelings for her. He had sworn to stay single forever, loving and leaving a trail of heartbroken women in his wake. He hasn't done anything to deserve falling in love: why him and why Amelie? Is she really so special? Tristan is torn between tenderness and desire, and as their relationship grows ever more complex, he finds it impossible to avoid betrayal.
Lovers or something like it is an intelligent and sensitive portrayal of the doubts and desires of a new generation, suffering from the agony of indecision and too many choices to feel true contentment.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FLORIAN ZELLER is twenty-six and a lecturer at the University of Political Science in Paris. Lovers or something like it is his second novel, and was published in France to enormous critical acclaim. He received the Prix Interallie for his third novel, The Fascination of Evil, published by Pushkin Press in 2006, and received the Hachette Foundation Literary Prize for his first novel, Artificial Snow. He is also the winner of a New Writer Award from the Prince Pierre of Monaco Foundation.
TRANSLATED BY Sue Dyson
Cover illustration by Susan Derges
ISBN 1 901285 52 9 - 168pp
