And the bowl overflowed

Francoise Sagan was called Mademoiselle Chanel from literature. Starting from the very first novel Hello, sadness! (1954), which made a lot of noise, her literary career developed brilliantly, she created a book behind the book with amazing ease, they were translated into various languages ​​and they scattered around the world by millions of copies.
In the novel “And the Chalice” (1985) the heroes of the narrative Jerome and Alice in June 1942 cross the demarcation line and appear in the house of Charles, a friend of the youth of the Jerome. Unlike the latter, Charles keeps neutrality: he does not belong to the fighters of resistance and does not cooperate with the Nazis, but Hermar hopes that for the sake of the beauty of Alice, whose husband, a well -known surgeon, a Jew, died at the hands of the Nazis, Charles will help families escaping.
Francoise Sagan Verna: Her prose - transparent, elegant, deprived of pose - gives joy to all the new generations of readers