Publisher's Synopsis
Frederique, a middle-class woman, a teacher, separated and with a son, leads a boring and banal life, without great incentives. Until one day she discovers roulette and with it the adrenaline of gambling, chance and the vagaries of destiny. Roulette becomes an obsession that detaches her from her daily reality, she meets another player and with him embarks on a journey through all the casinos in France... Emmanuel Carrère's methodical writing introduces the reader into the self-destructive spiral of a woman who tries to sneak out of an anodyne existence by offering her fate at random.
