An author I discovered

The originality and interest of this novel lies in its construction. This is a book that is like a collection of short stories and the art of Baricco is to mix these three stories, yet distinct, by allusions, indices, similarities, similarities between the characters, places on their thought, certain traits of their character. Some characters are found in two stories, only spacetime changes.

These three meetings between three characters each time, three "appointments" which are born at night or in the middle of the night, to finish the morning. For each action begins in a hotel, or shabby chic, each provides an opportunity for men and women to the narrative of events that marked them to explain how they had to start from scratch.

Less than two hours is all you need to enjoy it; he read in one sitting. It immerses you in three atmospheres where the past and the present overlap or are repeated, where dialogues dominate, falls happen very quickly and surprised.
To discover.