It is a novel divided into thirty short chapters, like so many clips that allow Emmanuel Carrère by small impressionistic unroll the thread of a story to the heavy atmosphere. Nicolas - a sickly child, fearful, complexed whose life and imagination that is so intense and dull empty his real life, is the focus of this psychological drama that gradually updated and allows the author to explore the themes of secret transpires, lies and denial.
A beautiful reading that describes what can be introverted childhood, his relationship to adults and has a lot of interest when you know a little life and work of Emmanuel Carrere.
