Recently widowed grandmother Éliette is returning to her home in the mountains when her micro-car breaks down. A stranger comes to her aid on foot. Éliette offers him a lift, glad of the interruption to her humdrum routine.
That night, her neighbours' son is killed in a road accident. Could the tragedy be linked to the arrival of her good Samaritan? Hypnotic, amoral novelettes drawn from the darker side of provincial life. Like Georges Simenon's books, Pascal Garnier's subversive, almost surreal tales come in slim little volumes, seldom more than 150 pages or so. But in that space he manages to say as much, and more memorably too, than many authors of books that are too heavy to hold.
