The magic is no illusion

Twentieth novel as literary earnings. In the world of (large) letters pronounce metronome Nothomb. The back cover of Killing Father is brief:. "." Go find out what happens in the head of a player "Amelie would it take for Zweig or are asked to read Dostoevsky Obviously this is a false trail, the book focuses on the world of magic and, to a lesser extent, that of fire juggling (the best passage of the novel). 150 pages written with spacing enormous and, upon opening, the replica of a guest of a magical evening at the narrator: "Clever, your disguise Amélie Nothomb, someone told me." Twisting, is not it It's also the only note? humor (?) of a narrative that does not shatter, as usual, the learned words and names to sleep under the veranda. A new Nothomb would it arrive? No premature enthusiasm, please, if the first fifty pages can mislead aspiring magician -a 15 is "educated" by a mentor who is slowly becoming substitution- his father, the suite is inconsistent at best. Between Reno and Las Vegas, with a psychedelic evening in the middle, the plot disintegrates gradually. The final twist, hardly surprising, completes the reader who has not had time to be disappointed. The novel is too short. And sloppy with that. What rating this duty to return? Below average, certainly, but to be honest, the students Nothomb has done worse in the past. If she was treading a little more, it could almost give a good novel. Yes, yes, really. See you in August 2012 and without rancor.