Why did I put three stars while during the reading of this novel, I was blown away by constantly style, narrative sense of auterur, the lintelligence about? Logically I could have put 5 because it is without pathos but sparing readers the horror that is the accidental death or illness of the author / narrator spends moving account of her experience of the tsunami Thailand than the cancer death of his young sister in law (and in the background, the story of the two cancers of one of his employees) ... Yes, but here, in the pages this book s' proved more harmful to my morale. He entered into resonance with too many personal demons (who is not afraid of disease, death? Who are to be confronted in one way or another?), In short, after having forced her to read slow decay of the stepsister ... I had to stop. I could not continue. Too hard. Too true. Too pessimistic. The reason demanded that I stop. Another negative point: I did not like ANY OF the few pages where one of the characters (but we feel that the opinion of the author behind) explains that cancer, it carries in itself, as some people make little for life, depressive tendency, the door to them. This kind of statements that are not based on any scientific basis seem aberrant.