Mechanical médusante.

Twenty years ago, Anna bored to Acquargento, an old ruined village of Cap Corse, where his parents spruced school secondary residence. Gilles, his father, a little booze and his mother Rosa abandons his piano. Anna, slender redhead rebel in New York graphic during dream and hear the Cure in an old attic.

Helena sister, nurse, mother daughter, blonde and Cagole, invites himself without warning after more than a year's absence. Right on Anna takes a liking to Leah his very young niece. For Anna, behavior towards his daughter Helen's strange: she apparently wants to harm him and looking almost accidents ...

I enjoyed this second novel by Marie Neuser (I kill French children in the gardens). It happens in Corsica, but could be in any place in the desert by the sea, where it is warm, with jellyfish, goats and wasps (in Corsica, what!).

It is a kind of family thriller gentle slope. It is also a beautiful teenager portrait, sensitive and moving, but not touting for a round. The author uses to the narrator, giving a strange and original clinical distance to the story. It's very well written, in a cold, hard style, which cools the warm atmosphere of this cruel and oppressive strangely ordinary family history.

Marie Neuser just released his third novel, Take Lily