At The Existentialist CaféFrom the bestselling author of How to Live, an enthralling and original new book about a group of young thinkers, the birth of existentialism and some of the biggest questions of all Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize Paris, near the turn of 1932 3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec de Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes