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A brief about the book: a short novel written in an unpretentious language and an elegant captivating style. Françoise Sagan inserted her traits into a struggle against mocking fate, reckless coincidence, and impossible love, armed only with isolation, illusion, wishes, and absurdity. A great calmness left Sagan’s characters searching for the lost habit, each in their own way. It was a light, well-crafted, and enjoyable literary painting, blending imagination with reality, dream with despair, paper tragedy with psychological tragedy, depth of philosophy with Sagan’s distinctive elegant narrative sentences. That writer who captures from details and psychological states what you wouldn’t think could be transformed into writing. She amazes you with her metaphors, which are unlike anything else, and her ability to delve into the human soul. Even as I translate her, an old thought that had haunted me since I read her for the first time years ago revives in my mind, saying: she is a woman before whom one turns into a scandal! The interesting part of the text, without preempting the reader’s discovery, is the Parisian atmosphere the author invites you into, giving you the chance to share the characters’ places, outings, gatherings, and dialogues as if you are one of them. Then there are the innovative ideas she inspires you with as you watch relationships being built before your eyes and disappointments following one after the other. All the characters sought beyond happiness: awareness of happiness. At first glance, it seems that the person has moved from the mold of seeking happiness to becoming their own happiness, and may also, for simple reasons, turn into someone else’s tragedy and destiny. And the characters possess all the qualities of peace and happiness if there were not a poor distribution of roles among them. It becomes clear that tragedy is a game of a mocking fate, reminiscent to a large extent of Greek gods governed by their desires and interests, playing with granting what is undeserved and depriving what is deserving. A theatrical plot skillfully crafted by Sagan, closing in on her characters in a turbulent tragic space that is not devoid of drink, love, confusion, and the unknown. Author: Françoise Sagan Number of pages: 92 Year of publication: 2019 Publisher: Dar Al-Mada for Printing, Publishing, and Distribution Book cover: Paperback