DREAMING IN FRENCH: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 10720006B01921

English Summary/英文概要： Charlotte Sanders a precocious American girl growing up in Paris in the late 1970s, leads a charmed life. As students at an elite international school, she and her peers study in Paris’s cafés and tabacs, see movies at the Cinémathèque, and experience the thrills and agonies of first love to the sounds of Serge Gainsbourg and Pink Floyd. Charlotte’s father, a lawyer and quiet intellectual, devotes his spare time to Balzac and opera. Her sister, Lea, is a star equestrian. And her mother Astrid’s passion for left-wing causes is equaled only by her fashion sense.

But this idyllic childhood is turned upside down when Astrid has an affair and the family is shattered. Leaving her sister in Paris, Charlotte follows her mother to New York. There, reduced circumstances and Astrid’s unwillingness to face reality force Charlotte to quickly grow up. In the shadow of her glamorous and erratic mother, Charlotte has to negotiate her own path to womanhood, eventually living through her own unhappy love affair and returning to a Europe that has been reshaped by the downfall of Communism.

At once a coming-of-age story and a meditation on cultural identity, Dreaming in French is an enchanting portrayal of the challenges of adolescence and an honest account of one girl’s discovery that where we come from makes us who we are.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 細膩溫暖的筆觸，詼諧幽默的情節，讀來彷如現代版Mitford 的《夢想巴黎》

故事發生在20世紀70年代。
夏洛特（Charlotte Sanders）是一個相較同齡女孩早熟的美國女孩，從小在巴黎長大，生活優渥的她，與她的讀書會同學習慣在巴黎的咖啡館看書晃蕩，聽法國著名歌手Serge Gainsbourg與平克·佛洛伊德放蕩不羈的歌聲感受初戀的感傷。和大多數法國人一樣，夏洛特擁有無憂無慮的生活…
她的父親是一名律師，睿智，聰明，喜歡歌劇和巴爾扎克的小說，母親Astrid 則是崇尚時尚，更是一名狂熱的左翼分子！
但隨著她母親與她的情人---一個西班牙反共產主義黨派份子的戀情被揭露，父母最後走上離婚ㄧ途。父母離異使夏洛特深受打擊，最後隨著她至愛的母親一起去了曼哈頓，開始了她不同於法國的成長歷程……
深受母親影響的她最後是否會和母親走上一樣的道路？(AC & KC)

Awards/获奖情况："Beneath the surface of this swift, bracing comedy of manners runs a current of genuine heartbreak as a daughter tries and tries to know her unknowable mother. McAndrew’s style is irresistible." ---Susanna Sonnenberg, author of Her Last Death

"Hugely funny, tender, and clever. Dreaming in French reads like modern-day Mitford -- the characters are delicious and compelling. Megan McAndrew has achieved that rare thing: to write characters who are flawed, without the least bit of judgment. The book is brimful of compassion and understanding. It’s a marvel." ---Sophie Dahl, author of Playing with the Grown-ups

"Ruthlessly charming and ridiculously well written, Dreaming in French is a fierce delight. I laughed and cringed and tore through it; its pleasures -- the characters, the language, the loss -- are vast." ---Theresa Rebeck, author of Three Girls and Their Brother

"Dreaming in French is a rare hybrid -- part cool, sophisticated comedy of manners; part deeply emotional coming-of-age tale -- narrated by one of the decade’s most charming heroines. In brisk, lovely Whartonian prose, McAndrew perfectly captures the political upheavals of the late 1970s and the way these vast structural changes reverberated in lives around the globe." ---Joanna Smith Rakoff, author of A Fortunate Age

"Light as an éclair, but satisfying as a bowl of cassoulet, Dreaming in French is a rich, wise, and deeply generous novel." ---Yona Zeldis McDonough, author of The Four Temperaments and Breaking the Bank

About the Author/作者介绍： Megan McAndrew is herself the daughter of expatriates. She grew up in France, Spain and Belgium before attending college in the United States. She worked in Warsaw, Poland, as a representative for the Financial Services Volunteer Corps. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her teenage son.

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