The author is a former "negro", that is to say, he wrote novels for other authors. His hero carries the same profession. We meet him in New York, where he has just arrived. Max is a little lost, he does not know where he is because he has lost all his previous memories 15 years. He meets a young woman begins psychotherapy ... but above all, he appearances, in this case a young girl, now for a while. Parallel to this, we meet Olivia, a journalist for ELLE, mired in his family problems, who are trying to publish an article about a mysterious successful author that nobody has ever seen. These 2 story pans One wonders what have to do with each other, until a mysterious novel connects ... An unexpected story, almost to the end, which I I guessed a little too early for my taste ... But a great story, well built, with depth, both in substance and in form.