- Prix Goncourt 2006 · Shortlist
L'Amant en culottes courtes
“The Lover in Short Trousers” (title translated by AI)
Alain Fleischer (born 1944)
English editions
No English yetNo English translation found yet.
London, summer 1957: a French boy of thirteen lodging with a host family to learn English falls for a woman of twenty. This autobiographical book revisits those few days, caught between new longing and the wish to stay a child.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 612 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, Autofiction, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, 1957
- First published
- 2006 by Seuil
- Author's age
- 62 when first published
- ISBN
9782020892841 (original)