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Gavalda's slim second novel, published here in back-to-back English and French versions, tells a spare, dialogue-based tale of a young, abandoned wife. Chloé, mother of two, is in shock after her husband, Adrien, leaves her for another woman. In an improbable move, her laconic father-in-law, Pierre, rescues her, driving Chloé and her daughters to his country house, where they spend a few surprisingly therapeutic days together. While in the country, Pierre gives Chloé an extended account of an extramarital affair of his own. His dalliance was based on real love, and this, ironically, comforts Chloé. Gavalda's prose style is refreshingly elliptical, though often the reader longs for more than a scrap of exposition. At the book's best moments, mundane details mingle with Chloé's despair to create an even deeper sadness: while cooking dinner with Pierre, Chloé reflects, "I cried, thinking occasionally about how the spaghetti was going to be inedible if I didn't add some oil." But Gavalda's prose can also lurch clumsily between triteness and sarcasm: "Go to the ends of the earth, clamber over thickets, hedges, ditches, get a stuffy nose, cross old Marcel's courtyard, and watch Teletoons while eating strawberry-flavored marshmallows. Sometimes, life is wonderful...." Such awkward pathos weighs down Gavalda's airy tale. (Apr. 5)
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One publishing "innovation" marking the century's turn is the use of slide-presentation software to compose novels. These PowerPoint creations are tailored to indulge decreasing attention spans in terms of overall and individual segment length (there goes deep characterization) and to require minimal adaptation for the movies. At first, Gavalda's super-slim international best-seller seems to fit that model perfectly (its high page count derives from its appendix: the entire text in the original French). Its inciting incident is minimal. But is what follows? Adrien Dippel leaves his wife, Chloe, and their two small girls for another woman. The tale unfolds from Chloe's brokenhearted point of view in bursts of dialogue as her father-in-law, breaking 42 years of silence about his own infidelity, bares his soul to her, and the two huddle over the kitchen table eating, drinking, consoling, attacking, and regrouping. Using the conversation to explore the motivations and nuances involved in marriage, and bringing to life some exquisitely delineated characters and their familial bonds, Gavalda's novel is anything but calculatedly shallow. Whitney Scott
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5.0étoiles sur 5 Simple, truthful, and merciless, Janv. 16 2007
There is something heartbreakingly simple about Someone I Loved. The novel follows the story of Chloe, whose husband had just abandoned her with two small children. Devastated, she is comforted by her father-in-law Pierre, who shares secrets from his past.

With this book, Anna Gavalda has demonstrated not only a unique style of writing but also a deep understanding of human character. Gavalda uses simple words, simple structure, and simple gestures that accurately portray and reflect real life human beings, and not merely characters a novel. The dialogue followed naturally and smoothly, allowing the reader to feel as though he/she was part of their intimate circle. However, a weakness is the transition of the dialogue, which makes it difficult for the reader to tell who is speaking next.

Gavalda's writing is mercilessly truthful, there is no room for pity or denial. She covers the idea of love from several angles: Chloe being left by her husband and Pierre refusing to leave his wife Suzanne for another woman who proved to be the love of his life. We feel the desperation felt by Chloe. We feel the unfairness felt by Suzanne whose husband is unfaithful. We feel the frustration of Mathilde who is with a man who refuses to give her the love she deserves. The characters experience varying degrees of helplessness, and varying abilities to take their lives into their own hands. Yet, we can easily picture ourselves as one of those women at sometime in our lives.

Some of the themes explored by Anna Gavalda strike very close to home: the impossibility of love lasting forever, the inevitability of parting, and the longing for those brief moments of bliss. Gavalda also introduces colorful supporting characters. I was especially touched by the cancer stricken Francoise stating that she put up a fight only because there was still much that she wanted to do and there was someone who needed her. I could identify with Mathilde who put forth the image of femme fatale dealing with life on her own terms but really wishing that she could meet someone who would allow her to be soft for once. The list made by Mathilde about all the things she wished she could do with Pierre was heart wrenching.

I had fallen in love with Anna Gavalda's writing after reading I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere. And Someone I Loved only reinforced that Anna Gavalda neither blames nor judges, but writes only with a knowledge of the human heart.
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