Amélie Nothomb signs here a story whose starting point is a match, an epistolary exchange that will become a meeting in the flesh, that of a novelist with his faithful reader. Quickly familiarity is established, the dialogues are increasing, the current passes, a friendship is created.
The author chose to stage two women that love of writing brings a whose notoriety is installed, the other young and crazy which has the future ahead of it and a huge potential.
Small squabbles, ugly ways, improvised nonsense, humor, laughter accomplices, heated exchanges, singular situations, admiration and competition will make this novel, a moment of pleasant reading, also the opportunity for the author to remind his reader some his novels already published.
As always in his novels, Amélie Nothomb likes to tell, is to stage, to mention Japan, spread its culture, but we forgive him is a watered reading time, the champagne flows and the end is well imagined.
