As night falls over Vienna, Franz Ritter, an insomniac musicologist, takes to his sickbed with an unspecified illness and spends a restless night drifting between dreams and memories, revisiting the important chapters of his life as an Orientalist.
Translated from French by Charlotte Mandell, this novel from the author of "Street Of Thieves" and "Zone" won the 2015 Prix Goncourt.