Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along by doing the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers.
“Twice, yesterday and the day before, he had been a coward and had not dared. Today, the first of May, he would dare and she would love him.”
(~Belle du Seigneur by Albert Cohen Paperback Edition, 1968)
[ This comes from page one of this long novel, probably one of the most intense and compelling stories of love and death in the best French tradition. Winner of the Grand Prix du Roman de l’Académie française in 1968. This is the blurb of the English edition: “Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become bitterly disillusioned by international affairs and the self-serving people who surround him. His one hope for redemption is through love – and he embarks on the audacious seduction of Ariane, the beautiful, daydreaming wife of a dull-witted, social-climbing employee of the League. Albert Cohen created a world humming with the many vivid and eccentric voices of its wonderfully observed characters. Brilliantly inventive and baroquely detailed, this magnificent novel is a merciless satire of middle-class manners and ambitions, and of the Byzantine machinations of global politics.” A must read.]
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This one sounds a wonderful historical read:))
It is, yes. And it is fantastic writing, even though the French original is better.
Ooo… *properly impressed sound* The original French…
(no need to be impressed… I’m half-French, as a matter of fact. I’d be in troubles if I could not :D)
Hm… given I barely got past ‘la plume de ma tante’, I’m STILL impressed:))