London Mon Amour

by Marc Levy

Mathias and Antoine are both divorced and move in together to share the responsibilities for their children. Their only rule is, no women in the house. Of course, that rule is broken the minute they set foot into their new apartment ...

Genres: France, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Roman, French Literature, Chick Lit

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Marc Levy was born in France. When he turned eighteen, he joined the Red Cross, where he spent the next six years. In 1983, he created a computer graphics company based in France and the United States. Six years later, he co-founded an interior design and planning company with two friends; the company soon became one of the leading architecture firms in France.

At thirty-seven, Marc Levy wrote a story for the man that his son would grow up to be. In early 1999, his sister, a screenwriter (now a film director), encouraged him to send the manuscript to a French publisher, who immediately decided to publish If Only It Were True. Before it was published, Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks) acquired film rights to the novel. The movie, Just like Heaven, starring Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo, was a #1 box office hit in America in 2005.

After If Only It Were True, Marc Levy began writing full-time. Since then, he has written 18 novels. His work has been translated into 49 languages and has sold over 40 million copies worldwide.

In addition, Marc Levy has directed a short movie, written short stories and song lyrics for various artists, including Johnny Hallyday.

Le Figaro newspaper recently commissioned a nationwide poll asking the French to rank their favorite author: Marc Levy and Victor Hugo were #1.

Marc Levy currently lives in New York City. Readers can learn more about him and follow his work on www.marclevy.info

Reviews

[Tea Jovanović]

Rame uz rame s Gijom Musoom... veliki francuski savremeni pisac... Knjige su mu ekranizovane... A srpski prevodi su za deset kopalja bolji od Musoovih prevoda... Proverite zašto :)

[Razvan Banciu]

Marc Levy is one of the authors I really like, even if his sensitivity is somehow in excess.
"If Only It Were True" and "Le Voleur d'ombres" are very well balanced and with a strong touch of humor. This one is not so good, for at least two reasons: the plot is too pathetic and Mathias is no more than a moron and I hate being embarrassed by someone's behavior, even if that person is purely fictional...

[Bren]

No es ninguna novedad que Marc Levy resulte siempre en una lectura mucho más que placentera, hasta el momento, no he leído ningún libro de este autor que no me haya dejado un excelente sabor de boca.

En esta ocasión nos cuenta una historia que va mucho más allá de una historia romántica, se trata más bien de la amistad entre dos hombres que se conocen prácticamente de toda la vida y que terminan viviendo juntos con sus respectivos hijos, esta convivencia ha resultado adorable, enternecedora, divertida y maravillosa.

Estos dos personajes me han vuelto loca, los he adorado por separado y los he amado estando juntos, su vida, su día a día, ayudarse mutuamente para superar sus miedos y fracasos y al mismo tiempo volverse locos mutuamente con la convivencia diaria.

La forma de escribir de Marc Levy es sencillamente genial, soy una absoluta fan de este escritor y aún y cuando me han gustado mucho todos los libros que he leído de él, este es mi favorito de lejos, además he notado un pequeño cambio de ritmo y de estilo en este libro con respecto a anteriores que he leído de él, por un lado está la historia, que ya de por sí es bastante genial, pero me ha resultado, no sé, tal vez algo más sentida, con un ritmo diferente.

Sin duda lo mejor de este libro son sus protagonistas, los dos tan diferentes, pero igual de adorables y todos los personajes secundarios realzan precisamente a los protagonistas.

He pasado un momento genial al leerlo, gracias Zai por la recomendación, realmente lo he disfrutado mucho.

[Carmila]

This book has great reviews and I was hoping for a great novel, but I was bored and found it hard to go on reading it. The adults are too much like kids, the kids think too much like adults... I couldn't identify to anyone. Disappointing!

[Mihaela Abrudan]

2.5 foarte veselă și tonică. Viața în comun a doi prieteni divorțați și cu copii aproape se transformă în viața de cuplu căsătorit cu certuri și reproșuri specifice celor căsătoriți. Modul de scriere a lui Levy îți dă impresia că stai pe margine și spionezi personajele.

[Nihal]

I enjoyed every page of this book! I couldn't let go of it. It 's touching, sensitive, funny, and full of emotions. It shows a beautiful picture of male friendship. I love Levy's simplicity in writing and the capability of letting the readers imagine the scenes and characters so clearly in their mind.

[Alex]

Easy to read but quite boring

[julie_lmcr]

Je m'attendais à mieux et penssais que cela serait plus drôle et non... au contraire leurs disputes sont lassantes et j'ai trouvé l'histoire trop longue et pas très intéressante !

[miyopastronot]

"Sorun bekar olmak değil, yalnız yaşamak."
"Yalnız yaşamak bekarlığın ilkesi sayılır. Kaldı ki, yalnız değiliz, çocuklarımızla yaşıyoruz."
"Yalnız!"
"Her cümlede tekrarlayacak mısın bunu?"
"Gülüp oynayan çocukların olduğu bir ev istiyorum, kapıdan içeri girdiğimde hayat taşan bir ev bulmak istiyorum, pazar günlerinin kabus gibi geçmesini istemiyorum, etrafta gülüşen çocuklar olduğu hafta sonları istiyorum."
"Bunu iki kez söyledin!"
"Arka arkaya iki kez gülerlerse de sorun olur mu senin için?"

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Şu kesin bi' gerçek, Marc Levy'nin kaleminden her şeyi okurum. Evet alışveriş listesi dahil!

[Victoria]

This is a first book of Marc Levy that I have read and I really loved it. I read it in one day and I was really amused. It is so cute, so sweet, so warm and so... I don't know. By the end of the book I thought I knew the characters all my life, they became so close to me. I thought I was one of the people who live in this book and who watches characters every day. I really loved the book and I recommend it to all the romantic people to read. You will love it too.

[Maxime Lousse]

J'ai trouvé le début terriblement insipide, des personnages surfait (pour les 2 protagonistes principaux). Plus l'histoire avance et plus le tout devient intéressant mais on est bien loin (à mon sens) du Marc Levy habituel

[chloheey]

3,5 ⭐️

[Bart]

Actual rating: 4.00

[Zai]

En esta novela Marc Levy nos presenta a dos amigos divorciados, Antoine que tiene un hijo que se llama Louis y viven en Londres, y Mathias que vive en París, y también tiene una hija, Emily que vive con su exmujer, Valentine en Londres. Antoine convence a su amigo para que se traslade a Londres para regentar una librería y éste acepta para poder estar cerca de su hija, pero una vez en Londres, las cosas cambian cuando llega a París, Valentine le informa de que se traslada a París por cuestiones de trabajo y que Emily vivirá con él, así que los dos amigos deciden vivir juntos y ponen algunas normas de convivencia, “Nada de mujeres ni canguros en la casa”, y aquí comienza la historia de la convivencia de estos dos amigos tan diferentes.

Me gusta como escribe Marc Levy, tiene un estilo fresco y ligero que va perfecto para después de lecturas más densas. Esta novela en concreto es ligera y con un toque de ironía en las conversaciones de sus personajes que me ha encantado. Esta es la primera novela de este autor que leo en la que no mete elementos fantásticos.

Los protagonistas, Antoine y Mathias me han encantado, cada uno en su estilo, son tan diferentes los dos amigos que la convivencia a veces se les hace un poco cuesta arriba. Me han recordado a un matrimonio con sus pequeñas discusiones por cosas sin importancia. Y los hijos de ambos dos personajes entrañables, dos pequeños conspiradores en potencia y muchas ocasiones más maduros que sus respectivos padres.

Una novela emotiva y realista sobre la amistad y el amor y como sobrellevar las adversidades que la vida va poniendo en el camino de los protagonistas.

[Lyuba Boyajyan]

2,5 ավելի շատ։ Անկապ էր ինձ համար։ Իզուր չէր, որ զոռ էր գնում։ Չէր ձգում, դժվար էի կարդում։ Նախ լեզվի հարցն էի առաջ բերում, որ իրենց խոսաիցականով էր գրած, բայց չէ, մենակ դա չէր, սյուժեն կլանող չէր։ Իսկ օրվա ավարտին հեչ հավես չէի ունենում կարդալու։ Առանձնապես ոչինչ չտվեց։ Մենակ ընկերության մասին նորից մտածել տվեց։ Վերջում մի քիչ զգացվում ա, որ կա լավ ընկերություն այնուամենայնիվ

[Catalina]

"- Ne jurez de rien, croyez-moi...La vie a beaucoup plus d'imagination que nous !"

"- Grandis, mon vieux !
- Si j'avais grandi, tu ne serais jamais tombée amoreuse de moi !
- Si tu avais grandi après, nous serions toujours ensemble."

[أسماء]

c'est terriblement ennuyeux. Je ne trouve pas la force à le terminer.

[Burak Kuscu]

Yer yer üzen, yer yer güldüren müthiş bir kitap. 5 yıldız vermedim bunun sebebi şuydu;

Eski dostlukların tam olarak nereye dayandırıldığı okuyucuya hissettirilmiyordu. Yani bu kadar iyi dost olan bir grup insan var ve geçmişleri sadece bir iki cümleyle verilmiş. Bu kısım biraz canımı sıktı.

Onun dışında Antione'ın fedakâr kişiliği, Mathias'ın çılgın ama bir o kadar da duygusal yapısı, yan karakterler olan Yvonne'un anaç hareketleri ve geleneksel tarzı, Sophie'nin her ihtiyaç duyulduğunda orada olması müthişti.

Çok sıcak, çok güzel bir hikaye. Anlatım ise müthiş. Özellikler her karaktere bir iki cümle değinilen, aynı anda nerede ne yaptıklarının anlatıldığı kısımlara bayıldım.

Levy seni sevdim dostum.

[Clara]

I love Marc Levy and I read every single book he pusblishes traslated into Spanish, as I'm form Spain. But this book is just boring, I couldn't finish it, eve thogth I tried my best to do it because I really love its author's writing, but i won't push me throgh a book I wouldn't enjoy, so I left it.

My feeling about this book it's that doesn't really happens at all, it's too boring, the whole plot are the twon friends arguing for things I don't really care.

[Maria Carmo]

This is not a book as full of magic as many other Marc Levy's, but, it has a charming humor, a way of telling a story whcih is very much like a script for theater or a movie, and it had a detail I LOVED: the "apparition" of two beloved characters of another two books: Lauren and Arthur ! It was so funny to "meet" them briefly in this book!

Loved that...

Maria Carmo

Lisbon 13th September 2012.

[Marilyne]

Premier Marc Levy que je lis, et j'en suis très déçue... Je n'ai pas du tout aimé le style d'écriture, j'avais l'impression que certaines phrases n'étaient même pas correctes... Même pas 400 pages et j'ai mis presque une semaine pour le lire...
Je n'ai même pas trouvé l'histoire intéressante, je m'ennuyais et n'avais qu'une hâte: le finir. Dommage pour un auteur dont on entend tant parler..

[Awatif]

مثل هذه الأعمال هي ما تجعلني أمقت الرواية الحديثة.
بإختصار هذه ليست رواية بل قمامة.

[Annie]

J'ai adoré ce livre ainsi que son adaptation au cinéma.
Un des meilleurs Marc Levy à mon avis!

[Sara G]

It's a relatively entertaining read but I had a bit of trouble relating to the characters. The whole book spends the least time with the most interesting and likeable characters and the most with characters (or should I say character) I could not like or relate to.

If you want a quick read that you don't have to get too invested in and it's not too expensive, I'd say go for it, give it a read. There was nothing that hurt or offended me in the book and I actually really liked the whole community and how it was treated. It felt comforting, seeing all these people find a little bit of home in a foreign place and life just... continuing.

Still, the only emotionally impactful part of the book was the ending and even though it's not really a twist or even surprising, at all, it ruins the potential for rereads, for me personally.

[Julie]

Encore un bouquin de Lévy que j’ai beaucoup aimé! L’histoire est très agréable à lire, jamais d’énormes surprises mais toujours un déroulement intéressant et des belles histoires d’amitiés. Je donnerai un 4,5. Je trouve la fin un peu trop rapide, on aimerait en savoir un peu plus même si on se doute de ce qui se passe vraiment.

[Kosara Trojančević]

Odlična priča o prijateljima koji usred haosa koji im je život pripremio zajedno nalaze način da iz toga naprave nešto lepo. Ideja je genijalna.
Meni se nije dopao kraj, poslednjih 20 strana kao da mi ne idu uz ostatak priče. Pokvarile su mi utisak, ali i uz to vredi je pročitati.

[Nicole Aroca]

Siempre es grato volver a ver a Lauren y Arthur en las historias de Marc, tenemos una historia que fue anema pero para nada me encanto. Mathias y Antonie son dos amigos con hijos que deciden vivir juntos en Londres, el ritmo fue rapido pero en lo personal no es un libro que me encante.

[Emna]

J'ai adoré ce roman! Une très belle histoire, les personnages sont très attachant.
Ce livre est un vrai page turner!
Je le recommande.

[Iulia Gheorghe]

"Doamne, ca frumoasa mai e viata, cand se duce... si ceasca se rostogoli in iarba."

[Fabrice]

Had never heard of Marc Levy, but he's a best-selling french author, apparently. Read this in French, and it's a fairly bland tale of a few French friends leaving (for a while) in London. Cue all the cliches anyone could think of, and interesting facts such as being able to see France from the Cornwall coast, taking the M25 to get into London, paying a hospital bill after visiting A&E. Oh well.