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This short autobiographical novel by the brilliant Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) waited in the wings for almost seventy years until it was extracted from the writer's papers and published in 2020 by her adopted daughter Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. One of the most prominent figures in French cultural life, Sartre's friend, leader of the feminist movement and winner of the Goncourt Prize, Simone de Beauvoir did not publish the novel during her lifetime, considering it too personal. This is the story of a passionate friendship between two girls entering adulthood after the First World War. Trying to escape from the captivity of age-old prohibitions, they are desperately fighting for love and the right to choose their own life partner. A few years later, Simone de Beauvoir described the same dramatic events again in Memoirs of a Well-Brought-Up Maiden, but in a completely different way, more thoroughly and casually, while in The Inseparables the author of The Second Sex and famous memoirs appears as a master of plot and emotional poetic prose. This sensational publication has become a worldwide literary event.