TRIOLET, Elsa, Les Amants d'Avignon, Paris, Éditions de Minuit, 1943. Les Amants d’Avignon (Lovers of Avignon) is the ninth novel by Russian-French writer Elsa Triolet. This is a part of her collection: Le Premier accroc coûte deux cents francs (A Fine of Two Hundreds Francs). Set during World War II in a small town in Avignon (France). Published underground, it became a bestseller in France and won the Goncourt Prize in 1944. The main character in this novel is a beautiful young typist, Juliette Noël, living in Lyon (France). With WWII having broken out, she decided to join the Resistance Government of General De Gaulle. Collaborating with this Government in secrecy, travelling by train from one city to another in France to help the resistance fighters to know the movements of the collaborationists, she realized that there was no place for French people in the carriages. Triolet describes the milieu in trains, German soldiers and French people argued due to the previous war in which both countries (France and Germany) were involved. Juliette was working for the Resistance Government and she had to go to Avignon at Christmas where she met Célestin, a young boy joining the Resistance Government. They worked together and played, as she said to him: ‘‘On va jouer comme si on s’aimait.’’ (Let’s play as if we were in love). The best characteristics of this book are how the main character experiences love, and how she lives that period of shock. Despite having left her family in Lyon, the only thing that she wanted was to chase the German soldiers and expel them from France. This point is very interesting because we learn History at the same time we know the deepest feelings of Juliette. This is not only a Resistance novel; it is also courageous, inspiring and even funny because the people in trains only argue and do not stop screaming at each other the whole time. It also confronts the problems in society, for example, sadness and melancholy brought by the German occupation. For each city and moments lived in this novel, Les Amants d’Avignon should be read by all the people who like contemporary history and who want to know more about the reaction of French people against the German occupation. Paul Godoy Hilario, Complutense University of Madrid.