An amazing novel by the incomparable Françoise Sagan—one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
He is a hostage of his own love, tortured by painful, irresistible jealousy. He gets jealous about any reason, jealous of the present and the past,
of deeds and thoughts—desperately afraid to lose her. She is a bird trapped in the cage of this jealousy, driven by it to torment and despair. She wants to fly back up into the clouds, to regain her independence. But how can you hurt him?
Two opposites, two halves bound by the ties of marriage and by the ties of love—about which it’s hard to say whether it is punishment or a gift from heaven.