The novel tells the story of a middle-class UNESCO engineer called Walter Faber, who believes in rational, calculated world. Strange events undermine his security - an emergency landing in a Mexican desert against all odds, his friend Joachim hangs himself in the Mexican jungle, and he falls in love with a woman who dies of a concussion, he has an incestuous affair. Finally Faber becomes ill with stomach cancer, but it is too late for him to change his life.
- ISBN13 9782070374182
- Publish Date 25 January 1988 (first published 30 September 1971)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country FR
- Imprint Gallimard
- Format Paperback
- Language French