Really do not miss reading this magical book .D'abord magic of superb writing, also magic in the construction of the book, a friendship develops between a woman in her forties and her neighbor room an old woman, Clemence, who she comes to read .At the pages and a journey by train to Lake Baikal, we discover the unique love Clemence too early delighted and looking for love makes the narrator stock of his life trying to regain a youthful love .These small setbacks, over narration, enable us to discover the very endearing portrait of two women. This book is rightly part of the selection for the Prix Goncourt.