Endearing, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old Cecile is the very essence of untroubled amorality. Freed from the stifling constraints of boarding school, she joins her father--a handsome, still-young widower with a wandering eye--for a carefree, two-month summer vacation in a beautiful villa outside of Paris with his latest mistress, Elsa. Cecile cherishes the free-spirited moments she and her father share, while plotting her own sexual adventures with a "tall and almost beautiful" law student. But the arrival of her late mother's best friend, Anne, intrudes upon a young girl's pleasures. And when a relationship begins to develop between the adults, Cecile and her lover set in motion a plan to keep them apart...with tragic, unexpected consequences. The internationally beloved story of a precocious teenager's attempts to understand and control the world around her, Francoise Sagan's "Bonjour Tristesse" is a beautifully composed, wonderfully ambiguous celebration of sexual liberation, at once sympathetic and powerfully unsparing.

弗朗索瓦丝·萨冈（Francoise Sagan，1935－2004）是法国著名的才女作家。一九五四年，年仅十八岁的她写出了小说《你好，忧愁》，一举夺得当年法国的“批评家奖”。这本关于少年、爱情和孤独的小说，在五年之内被翻译成二十二种语言，在全球的销量高达五百万册，还被改编成电影，成为轰动一时的文化事件和出版现象。

萨冈漂亮出众，个性鲜明，行为有些离经判道，她喜欢写作、赛马、飚车、酗酒，却备受法国人钟爱。与萨特和法国前总统密特朗不寻常的友谊，都为她的神秘增添了特殊光环。

萨冈被视为一个时代的青春代言人，她的小说明快、典雅，同时富有乐感和诗意，散发着淡淡的愁绪，文字简洁、聪明而从容，将法语的优美展露无遗。她的代表作包括《你好，忧愁》、《某种微笑》、《一月后，一年后》、《你喜欢勃拉姆斯吗……》、《狂乱》，等等。