:: History::
Emily's health in always been fragile, already small everything scared it: at night, the wind, the passers-by, the uninhabited tracks, the unknowns on the telephone, the bald - smiled, the corridors of hotel, the small bell at the neck of the cats, the cream of the milk . This terror is going to stretch in all what encircles him.
The birth baths in tragedy: his mother dies by bringing it into the world. Marked by this heavy past, the baby grows encircled by the love of her brother, her "shield", to a strange aunt come back from Asia, to a grandmother cut out in the memories of a dreamt life, and of a father sculptor of prow. The disappearance violent and brought closer to the members of its family is going to draw Emily away farther in the meanders of madness. It is voices of the dead that she hears From now on only in the world, the brother and the sister leave N mes for Paris. Emily is allowed to entice little by little by a neighbour, Ivan Skobline, threads of jolly Russian emigrant, his perfect opposite. Their love story will end with the death of the young man. This blow of fate will throw its fall into the world haunted by the pictures of past, of which nothing will manage to get outside her, not even tries were despaired of her brother. It is it the narrator, who tells us this moving destiny. Emily, born in the world of shadows, will not have succeeded, in spite of sunny spells of love, in avoiding her fant mes.sources: Grasset 2008