45 Rue d'Ulm

Thirty years after leaving the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, a woman returns to the room of her student years. Having rediscovered a box of letters from her time in the class of 1989 — the year the Berlin Wall fell — she gathers her old friends in her former dorm room. What have they become? In this deeply personal and generational narrative, Éliette Abécassis writes in the first person for the first time, delivering a luminous story about friendship, youth, and the inexorable passage of time.