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Goncourt 2006 · Shortlist
L'Amant en culottes courtes
Title translated by AI:“The Lover in Short Trousers”
Alain Fleischer · 62 when first published
Novel · 612 pages · Coming of age, Autofiction, Love
AI-generated summary:In London in July 1957, a thirteen-year-old French boy staying with an English family to learn the language has his first love affair, with a young woman seven years older.