Coca-Cola, Levi’s jeans, Life magazines, and youth and jazz—jazz… A quiet town on the Loire hadn’t even managed to recover from the Germans when the Americans arrived. In the middle of the 20th century, NATO bases appeared in France, and this occupation became a serious test for two young hearts. Will they be able to keep each other in the flow of dazzling wrappers and overseas rhythms?
Pascal Quignard (1948), one of the greatest French writers of our time and a Goncourt Prize laureate, created a piercing and poetic story about the power and fragility of love.