Good book: When we are young

The 700-page book revolves around the three main characters Adrien, Étienne and Nina over nearly four decades, from when they accidentally met in 5th grade, to adulthood, and then into middle age. From an inseparable trio in high school, they promised to go to Paris to study at university, to stay close to each other forever. However, life is not like a dream, when countless tragedies, losses, and pains suddenly strike. Will they have enough patience, courage and tolerance to keep that long-ago promise?

Comprehensive character psychology analysis

Starting her writing career at the age of 40, after a previous career as a backstage photographer and screenwriter, these characteristics can be seen in every page of Valérie Perrin's writing. Her preference for a perfect writing style with rich visual details (like a photographer), along with a comprehensive psychological analysis of characters (like a screenwriter), plus a lot of personal experiences (when writing at the age of 40) - all of these make her works always warmly received when released.

Sách hay: Khi người ta trẻ- Ảnh 1. — Author Valérie Perrin and the novel *Trilogy*

Unlike previous books such as The Forgotten Sundays or Flowers Bloom Every Day, The Trilogy begins with a story full of impulses, of youth, of foolishness and of free spirits. Perrin has an engaging way of telling the story, following the changes of each character from the time they meet to adulthood. In their childhood, the trio all harbored their own hidden feelings. While Adrien and Nina, one had no father and the other was raised by his grandfather, Étienne, although coming from a wealthy family, was always neglected by his father because he was not as good as his eldest brother.

Those children will then bond to fill in the gaps of the other. As they grow older, they gradually immerse themselves in love and madness. At each stage of life, the author knows how to call out their problems precisely, from which the reader seems to find themselves somewhere between the pages of the book, some of them are naive, some are foolish. Another driving force that makes the three of them become ups and downs is youth, in satisfying themselves in new horizons, for which the peaceful village of La Comelle is not enough. Just like Nicolas Mathieu's book The Same with Their Descendants , which won the Goncourt Prize in 2018, French youth now have to face globalization, modernization and changes calculated by the second of the new era...

It also lies in the choices at the crossroads, when the two boys go to Paris to pursue their dreams while Nina seems stuck with a somewhat wrong decision... Those challenges from both inside and outside will haunt this trio until middle age, in illness, in fear of failure as well as lack of motivation to live as a true person... Each person in each period has their own problems, their own tragedies. It evokes sympathy from the reader, but through the magic of literature, it also adds strength and sympathy, from there taking the remaining steps with great faith in a new day that will be brighter.

Engaging storytelling style

With a coming-of-age plot that follows the development of characters that seem not new, Valérie Perrin always knows how to make this work attractive. One of them is the mysteries and arrangements that are always subtly inserted. These inexplicable things are both factors that control the lives of the characters, but at the same time are the "anchors" that keep readers interested, so that even though her novels are often large in volume, they are always attractive and make readers constantly turn the pages.

If Hoa Van Noc Moi Ngay is a detective case, then in The Trilogy , it has the color of mysteries that will dominate the lives of the three characters. Not stopping there, Valérie Perrin also created a fourth narrator - someone who knows the story of the entire trio, but readers cannot find any trace of this character anywhere in the general story. Mystery upon mystery, the author cleverly arranges so that by the end of the book, the unsolved things are revealed, thereby deepening the inhibitions and mysteries that the trio hides within themselves.

The book is also written in two almost interrupted timelines, when the trio is still young until adulthood, when they are separated by mysteries until everything is now settled... Through the parallel writing style and the art of skillfully arranging perspectives, the author has brought many hypotheses, thereby complicating the mysteries themselves, creating a unique interest for the reader - something that a linear plot cannot do. Valérie Perrin shows herself to be excellent in this art, thereby bringing liveliness and keeping surprises until the end.

Finally, all the characters in the book are deeply and multi-facetedly exploited. From the trio, the mysterious narrator to their parents or the individuals more or less involved..., all have their own stories and influences, dominating the main message and plot. They are not just invisible ghosts, but always contain messages waiting for us to discover . It can be said that with comprehensive observation combined with the ability to exploit the character's psychology in a miraculous way, The Trilogy is a work full of empathy, with an attractive and engaging writing style, making readers constantly turn the pages.

Valérie Perrin was born in 1967 in Gueugnon, France. In addition to writing, she is also a backstage photographer and screenwriter, but it is her literary works that have brought her name to the general public. Her first novel - The Forgotten People of Sunday and Monday - Flowers Bloom Every Day was highly appreciated, winning many prestigious awards since its release.

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