Lie with Me

这不是一本关于两个少年如何相爱然后分离的青春伤痛小说。真正困住读者的，是那个始终缺席的Thomas——他活在别人的复述里，活在家族意志的传承与叛离中，活在一封迟来的信里。Philippe Besson写的是回忆与虚构之间的暧昧地带：叙述者不断重访十七岁，却发现自己早已错过了青春本身。读者反复提及的，正是这种“来不及”：当终于意识到那一刻已经结束，它已经消失、遗失、太晚。书的前半段甜蜜得过于稀疏，后半段全程缺席的Thomas反而成为最沉重的存在。它适合那些愿意被一种masochistic的痛感牵引、在残缺与留白里反复咀嚼余韵的人，也适合对杜拉斯式叙事调情有独钟的读者。它不提供圆满，只提供一场无法逃离的、被开除出局的痛。

Philippe Besson is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel, In the Absence of Men, was awarded the Emmanuel-Roblès Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of, among others, Late Autumn (Grand Prize RTL-Lire), A Boy from Italy, and The Atlantic House. In 2017 he published Lie With Me, which has sold more than 120,000 copies and was awarded the Maisons de la Presse Prize, and A Character from a Novel, an intimate portrait of Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign. His novels have been translated into twenty different languages. Molly Ringwald's writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vogue, and she is the author of the bestselling novel-in-stories When It Happens to You.