Date 06 January 2021
Pages 176
Format cm 14 x 21
Price € 17.00
EAN 9782207161203
Publisher Website www.denoel.fr

The Candle at Both Ends

Author Lucie Droga
Publisher Denoël
Keywords Millennials - Paris - Youth
The portrait of a group of young people: unskilled, unemployed, pathetic, and yet incredibly endearing.

Not a student anymore, but not yet active in the professional world, Suzanne works a side job at a Paris bar and spends the rest of her time drinking away her boredom amongst the regulars. Provocative and frank, she loses herself in one-night love affairs and fleeting moments of tenderness in order to forget. Just like her friends: other nice, lost losers and sometimes, liars.
Against all expectations, when she meets Victor, it’s passionate love at first sight. But he abruptly disappears. Suzanne falls head over heels into the abyss of obsession. She heads out into Paris to find him on an epic quest that will give direction to her seemingly meaningless existence.