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Screen adaptation

A Certain Smile

Françoise Sagan

A young student's affair with an older married man brings pleasure and disillusion into tension, exploring the uncertain boundaries of romantic freedom.

Nonfiction

Screen adaptation

Bonjour Tristesse

Françoise Sagan

A teenager's summer on the Riviera turns dangerous, as sunshine, desire and a taste for freedom inspire a reckless emotional game.

Literary fiction

Salad Days

Françoise Sagan

A timid bookkeeper discovers jewels that transform his prospects, setting an unexpected change of fortune against the routines of ordinary life.

Literary fiction

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