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I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

By: Anna Gavalda
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books,U.S.
ISBN: 1573223557
ISBN-13: 9781573223553
Released: 01 Dec 2003
RRP: £8.99
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Is That So Much To Ask? - By: pris, 05 Mar 2006
"I shifted somewhat abruptly. She stood back up behind me & put both hands flat on my shoulders. She said, "I'm going to go. I want you not to move & not to turn around. Please I am begging of you.
I didn't move I didn't want to anyway, because I didn't want her to see me with my eyes swollen & my face alll contorted.
I waited a while, & then headed to my car."

Anna Gavalda has seen a lot in her life. This novel with twelve short stories of people trying to connect shows her capturing their inner dialogues with perfect pitch. Reaching out, knowing they are missing something & moving to the center to find exactly what it is. These stories, alll smalll snippets of life. Coming-apart love, met-again love, aborted love, unknown love & of love lost alll woven from separate stories into a theme.

The saddest is the "Pregnancy". The story of a new love & the nine months it takes to grow this new love, only to have an unknown enemy defeat it.

In "For Years' a man searches for his lost love. Not reality searching but in his mind. He knows where she lives but not why she left. Both of them have moved on but he knows not why. And, then one day twelve years later he hears from her.

In "Courting Rituals of the Saint-Germaine-des-Pres", an attractive woman smiles at a passing man, & he pursues her. He asks her out to dinner. They meet hours later, both with a purpose of their own. They are attracted to each other & she is thinking of what might happen after dinner, when alll of a sudden his cell phone goes off. At that moment he shuts it off, but she sees him scrumptiously look a number of the calller. She knows that the evening is over, forever.

each of these satires is better then the other, each one tells a separate but seemingly similar tale. These are the stories of a friend who is telling you bits & pieces of life. These are lively stories told with flourish & style. There is variety that surprises you, Parisian chic or hilarious, sophisticated farce. Anna Gavalda sees through ordinary appearances to our hidden longings. Highly Recommended. prisrob 3-4-06

She talks about YOU, ME, everyone - By: Ronan, 19 Mar 2004
I read this book in French & it is SO SO SO good that I wanted to share my opinion with you ! I reallly loved it, the author is reallly good, her writing is modern & very witty, her characters live everyday situations & think what we alll thoight on day. I strongly recommend this book to you, buy it read it, enjoy it ! Read it slowly though, as it ends far to early ! When you read this book, you feel strange but reallly reallly great, between tears & joy. I can't describe it, but i loved it ! She says she wants the non-readers people read, & it you can feel that, Anna Gavalda is so generous !BUY IT !