In a controversial first novel that took the French literary world by storm & won the Prix de Flore, Tristan Garcia uses sex, friendships & love affairs to show what happens to people when political ideals
- Marxism, gay rights, sexual liberation, nationalism
- come to an end. As Elizabeth Levallois, a cultural journalist, looks back on the decade & on the ravages of the AIDS epidemic in Paris, a drama unfolds
- one in which love turns to hate & fidelity turns to betrayal, in both affairs of the heart & politics. With great verve & ingenuity, Garcia lays claim to an era that promised freedom as never before, & he paints an indelible, sharp, but sympathetic portrait of intellectuals lost in the age of MTV.