About the book: 2005 / A powerful debut by an American of French origin, combining Parisian chic and the frantic drive of Manhattan. This is a very strange book. A mystery book, a flip book, a book with an optical illusion. One moment it was a deadly funny comedy - and now behind the irony the yawning secrets of existence are revealed. Naked men peer out from every window - exquisitely carefree handsome men or insecure neurotics; in any case, they carry fatal news. The logically calculated depravity of “Lolita” gives way to the eerie Kafkaesque grotesquerie and the refined nightmare of “The Picture of Dorian Gray.” How this book turns out for you is up to you to decide..