Magnificent restrained emotion

The great art of Emmanuel Carrère, it is this ability to describe reality as closely on the razor's edge, without filter without pathos. it's just incredibly sum and it is all the more touching. The disappearance of the little Juliette, distress of his parents and then later, the death of the great Juliette stir the reader deep within him. There are pages in the beginning of the couple, this desire he suddenly feels old with Helene are wonderful.
A reservation just on the bonding of the two stories that bothers a little, except that it be contemporary and both explain the author's change of course, there are some thing a little artificial. Or at least, something is missing.
But this is only a damper on the sublime melody of this book.