Could a lasting relationship be the greatest adventure of modern times?
Alice and Jules have lived together for sixty years.
With a literary tour de force, Eliette Abécassis traces the course of their romantic relationship, step by step, to reveal its nuances, dreams, desires, betrayals and regrets. Old age, routine, reunions, falling out of love, hatred, jealousy, children, marriage, passion: the film unfolds in reverse, through a series of twists and turns, moving from the era of social networks to the fall of the Berlin Wall, May 1968, the Algerian War…
This is the novel of lasting love, against all odds: A remedy for the cynicism and loneliness of our time. Now available in English for the first time!