num_pages: 640
description: Within a Budding Grove describes the first shoots of an astonishing love affair. When Proust's adolescent narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly of all he meets a dark-haired girl with sparkling eyes and a tiny beauty spot on her chin: the mysterious Albertine, who will become the great love of his life.
language: English
title: Within a Budding Grove
titlecomplete: Within a Budding Grove (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
characters: Narrator/Marcel, Charles Swann, Odette de Crécy, Gilberte Swann, Robert de Saint-Loup, Albertine Simonet, Baron de Charlus
genres: Fiction, France, French Literature, Philosophy, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 14374
series: À la recherche du temps perdu
awards: awardedAt: -1609430400000
name: Prix Goncourt, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Премія «Сковорода»
publisher: Vintage