A beautiful hardback copy of Silken Eyes by French author Françoise Sagan whose first novel Bonjour Tristesse, written in three weeks when she was 18 years old, scandalised French society with a tale of bourgeois affairs in the French Riviera. Silken Eyes is a collection of 18 short stories, each one a study of the kind of captivating characters that populate Sagan's novels.
Translated by Joanna Kilmartin, translator of several works by Sagan as well as Marcel Proust and Stanislaw Lem.
Published in 1976 by André Deutsch, an iconic publisher who brought books by Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, V. S. Naipal, Philip Roth, John Updike, Margaret Attwood, Peter Benchley and Eric Williams to British readers.
