The plot takes us to the south of France, where a couple of young retirees, Martial and Odette came to settle, first residents of an ultra-secure complex, The Friendly, kind of "paradise" tailored to the use of "seniors". But heaven, in this case, is not really the appointment. Life turns quickly in this sterile and monotonous standardized universe. And not a single neighbor who to the chat! Oh yes, well ... that's precisely he turns up, neighbors ... Gradually, new residents invest Conviviales The ... Alas, trouble, too, will soon reapply ...
Like most novels Garnier, it begins quietly, the tone bittersweet expensive to Author ... first is believed that the entire book (which incidentally is short) will be a satire of these Retirement villages where we will organize your leisure ... and up to where it was quickly like living under a bell ... theoretically ideal places protected from the fury of the world, except that this protection is to price high electronic fences, guards like "pitbull" and high fences so entrenched camp ...
But soon enough about the escapes and is especially Garnier Garnier, that it brings together people who would not have met and looked inter-action, half-curious half-fascinated, as a laboratory observe the reactions of unknown substances under his microscope ... There's no real story in the conventional sense. This book is rather a succession of sketches at the discretion which the characters reveal themselves and temperaments are exacerbated. Reading between the lines, we feel that the dear Pascal was deeply pessimistic vision of mankind is depressingly limited, though, and this is its great strength, he managed to temper his pessimism of a ferocious humor and a certain poetry a bit wacky ...
Garnier has happened in our Letters quietly stealthily fleeing the media and fame, willingly publishing in popular collections, leaving even labeled "crime writer", it is not really, but it will remain in any case I am convinced, as one of the most sensitive and the most endearing voices of contemporary literature. Some have seen him as an heir to Bove and Simenon. The eulogy is overwhelming but it is not unfounded.
