This sophisticated psychological thriller skillfully blurs the line between fact and fiction, reality and artifice. Delphine de Vigan has crafted a terrifying, insidious, meta-fictional thriller; a haunting vision of seduction and betrayal; a book which in its hungering for truth implicates the reader, too–even as it holds us in its thrall. This was really beautiful. The novel, No and Me, is an English translation of the French version "No et Moi," written by Delphine de Vigan. The story revolves around the life of a thirteen year old girl, Lou Bertignac, who chose to give an oral presentation regarding the subject of homelessness. Delphine de Vigan Limited preview - 2015 About the author (2015) Delphine de Vigan est notamment l’auteur de No et moi, des Heures souterraines, de Rien ne s’oppose à la nuit, de D’après une histoire vraie (prix Renaudot et Goncourt des lycéens 2015) et des Loyautés. A thought-provoking and searching novel about two very different teenagers and the true meaning of home and the nature of homelessness. Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160 and a good friend called Lucas who gets her through the school day. Delphine de Vigan. Delphine de Vigan was born in Paris in 1966. After studies at the CELSA Institute at the Paris Sorbonne University, she directed studies for an opinion research firm while writing first literary texts on the side. Vigan made her debut in 2001, under the pseudonym Lou Delvig, with the novel »Jours sans faim« (tr: Days Books to Borrow Open Library. Featured. Vigan, Delphine de. Publication date 2010 Topics Families -- France English. 246 pages ; 22 cm Box office. $3.9 million [1] Based on a True Story ( French: D'après une histoire vraie) is a 2017 internationally co-produced psychological thriller film directed by Roman Polanski, and written by Polanski and Olivier Assayas from the novel of the same name by Delphine de Vigan. It was screened out of competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Delphine de Vigan’s writing is clean and subtle but powerful and I am completely impressed by the translation. I’ve read a few translated novels this year and this one really stands out. Every word just feels right. That being said, this book also feels absolutely Not American which I LOVED. 4/5: Daphne de Vigan's No et Moi is a moving novel because it captures that golden space of time in childhood during which a guileless child, curious and optimistic, recognizes all that is flawed with the world and tries to change it. When faced with an upcoming presentation for her social and economic sciences class, our young yet fiercely intelligent protagonist Lou decides to interview No The international hit that sold half a million copies in France: a chilling work of fiction--but based on a true story--about a friendship gone terrifyingly toxic and the nature of reality.Winner of Le Prix Renaudot 2015 Winner of Le Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2015 Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L PGvsaAf.