No and Me by Delphine de Vigan (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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This engaging summary presents an analysis of No and Me by Delphine de Vigan, which tells the story of Lou, a gifted 13-year-old who one day meets a homeless girl called No. Lou decides to help her new friend to escape the streets and, in doing so, discovers a lot about poverty, homelessness, friendship and life in general. Despite being a relatively simple story, the novel was met with widespread acclaim when it was released, with De Vigan’s writing transforming what could have been a standard young adult novel into “a thing of poetic beauty” (The Times). De Vignan is a French writer who wrote under the pseudonym Lou Delvig before winning the Rotary International Prize in 2009 and the prestigious Prix des libraires for No and Me.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: BrightSummaries.com
• Release date: Oct 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9782806294425

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French novelist

Born in Boulogne-Billancourt (France) in 1966.

Notable works:

Days Without Hunger (2001), novel

Underground Time (2009), novel

Nothing Holds Back the Night (2011), novel

Delphine de Vigan was born in the Paris region in 1966. In 2001, she became known to the general public with her autobiographical novel on anorexia, Days Without Hunger, which was published under the pseudonym Lou Delvig. She then moved on to write a collection of short stories, Les jolis garçons ("The Pretty Boys", 2005), and a novel, Un soir de décembre (One December Evening, 2005), which had love as their main theme. In 2008, she received the Prix des libraires for her bestseller No and Me and the Prix Renaudot young adult for Nothing Holds Back the Night.

In 2015, her novel Based on a True Story won the Prix Renaudot.

The moving story of an unlikely friendship

Genre: novel

Reference edition: De Vigan, D. (2010) No and Me. Trans. Miller, G. London: Bloomsbury.

1st edition: 2010

Themes: friendship, mutual help, difference, poverty, homelessness

No and Me, adapted for the big screen in 2010, is the first person story of a gifted 13-year-old called Lou Bertignac. She shares her questions on life, on family and human relations, on