Frédérique, mujer de clase media, profesora, separada y con un hijo, lleva una vida aburrida y banal, sin grandes alicientes. Hasta que un día descubre la ruleta y con ella la adrenalina del azar del juego y los caprichos del destino. La ruleta se convierte en una obsesión que la va despegando de su realidad cotidiana, conoce a otro jugador y con él emprende un periplo por todos los casinos de Francia... La escritura metódica de Emmanuel Carrère introduce al lector en la espiral autodestructiva de una mujer que trata de escabullirse de una existencia anodina ofrendando su destino al azar.
Author
Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse. Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion, and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003. (Wikipedia)
