![]() ![]() So, when this ARC came to me in the mail with a famous name in massive letters on the front as translator, I took note. There are a lot of politics in literary translation and I am no expert, but one thing I do know is that translators often have to fight to be listed on the cover of a book and, in general, are underappreciated and underpaid. I found myself intrigued by this translation partially because of its translator: Molly Ringwald, whom we all know from Sixteen Candles and other iconic movies. Romantic, poetic, and fleeting, Lie with Me by Philippe Besson is such a lovely book. Translated from its original French, Lie With Me is the story of one man’s first love and the trajectory of his life since the two met. Philippe looks up from his coffee in a Bordeaux hotel and his gaze is drawn to a person he is certain is Thomas, his first love and a loop from his past left painfully unlinked all these years. ![]()
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